Quotes About Deception

Lying may be necessary, but should always be painful.

It is not your husband's lies that will do the most damage to you. It's the lies you tell yourself.

Evil people want to look good to others. They also want to appear good in their own eyes, so the pangs of shame and self-reproach do not penetrate their hearts.

Satan's goal is to tweak a lie so cleverly that it sounds reasonable, truthful, even right. Eve

You can sweep broken glass under the carpet, but eventually it will work its way through the rug and cut your foot.

It can be extremely difficult to discern evil hearts because their intention is to look good, not be good.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.

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Do you remember when you found out there was no Santa Claus? I was so upset I didn't think I'd be able to do the show.

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

But the thing about monsters was, you couldn't talk to them about it, because they wouldn't admit they were monsters in the first place.

More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!

The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride.

Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a fake life, a crude and undignified and inauthentic charade that nobody was really buying anyway.

Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it.

At that moment, when he should have been most lucidly present, he had no idea whether he was lying or telling the truth.

What's wrong with lying?... A lie is a blow to the tyranny of fact.

It was unconventional, but conventions were there to make it easy on the fakers and cheats.

Furthermore, as long as the world shall last, there will always be people who, either for the sake of peace or from an unquiet conscience, will build up sublime lies for their neighbours. And these people have always been and will always be the masters of human thought.

If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not in the modest doses that idealism offers, but in immoderate quantities, thousand-gallon-barrel gulps. He would taste the bitterness, but it would not make his head turn, as it does Schiller's, or Dostoevsky's, or even Socrates', whose head, as we know, could stand any quantity of wine, but went spinning with the most commonplace lie.

How long have you been working for that virtuoso of the magic violin? I don't mean that as a compliment. I only say a magic violin because when he plays it, everyone disappears.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.