Quotes About Deception

Remember that Backstabbers are sneaky,slick,seductive, and sabotaging.

They put on a front that appears accommodating, loyal, and yes, even sacrificial. Then, without warning, they raise their knife, and by the time you see the glint of the blade, it's almost always too late.

In all likelihood, Backstabbers are quite pleasant and supportive on the surface. But that's a mask.

One of the favorite pastimes of Backstabbers is recounting slights and grievances they've carried for years.

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

Backstabbing, by the way, is not to be confused with a minor slipup like canceling lunch at the last minute or neglecting to return a phone call.

Backstabbing is nothing new. In biblical times,King David experienced the pain of betrayal.

Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the tow of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.

Backstabbing occurs when a coworker lies low on a project and then grabs credit when it's nearing completion.

A sense of powerlessness fuels some backstabbers.

The underlying problem with many Backstabbers is a lack of self-esteem

That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty ... makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.

So when dogmatic atheists assume that science has all the answers, or imagine that it soon will, they are no more immune than the most literal religious fundamentalist to the deceptive enchantment of certainty.

The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.

It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was a colossal slap in the face.

While the Saint, when it was necessary to play the part, could assume an aspect of proud or unprincipled poverty that would evoke a responsive twang from any normal heartstring, his usual appearance, fortunately or unfortunately, suggested a person who was so far on the other side of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth that he must have been seriously shocked when he first learned that gold spoons were not standard issue.

As a soubrette, yes. But as Lady Macbeth—" Mr Keane made an expressive gesture which swept an ash tray off the table.

You were showing him your muscle?" I froze, wondering how much she had seen. She smiled. "Sometimes it's better to let boys think they're stronger," she told me.

at that time she had not yet seen that the horizon was an illusion and

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Never tell the truth about an amateur show.

If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman.

No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!