Quotes About Deception

There was no tiger. No intruder. No signs of a break-in.

Following them for a few blocks, Allan started to get the feeling they were more likely just co-stars in the live sex show on offer at the theater, rather than a genuine couple.

He'd had a dark, angry moment when he thought they might not have fallen for the ad he'd placed in the classified section.

I hate malls. They're like strip clubs for women. All tease and sparkle and the empty promise that if you just drop enough cash, somehow you'll be fulfilled.

It's not real. The image of his creepy ant-hands was nothing more than a standard, slightly silly hallucination.

Ich lernte viel an diesem Fall. Ich lernte, daß keine Lüge zu plump ist, als daß die Leute sie nicht glauben würden, wenn sie ihrem geheimen Wunsch, sie zu glauben, entgegenkommt.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

Simon périssait de tristesse, c'est évident, mais en même temps, la vie qu'il menait, depuis si longtemps, cette vie d'ingénieur, j'ose à peine le dire, semblait parfaitement lui convenir. La prétendue vocation nous trompe tout le temps. J'en said quelque chose. On pense être fait pour telle chose. On est fait pour telle autre. Et encore, pas sûr.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

It's very easy to diagnose a borderline. They screw you over, rip you off, commit whatever transgression, and then they blame you for it.

Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.

The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

notice." The false cheer in her voice is evidence of how

People think the painting is a portrait, but it isn't. Not really. He wasn't even in the field; he conjured it from a room in the house, an entirely different angle. He removed rocks and trees and outbuildings. The scale of the barn is wrong. And I am not that frail young thing, but a middle-aged spinster. It's not my body, really, and maybe not even my head. He

Sure it takes two to make the relationship work, but it only takes one to destroy it all.

Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.

you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me, lied to them

I know," he said with sudden bitterness, "because your mother's game is working after all. She is turning you against me." "No," said Louie. He looked at her pityingly, "No, I know you don't know it, Looloo.

Your old man sent me anonymous letters himself to make me divorce him." She rippled with he-hes. "I hung on to spite him. I didn't want him. It's my only pleasure left." She laughed.

Lie detectors detect not lies, but the subconscious stress and fear that lying causes.