Quotes About Deception

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

Oh, a heart's a poor choice to follow. It's so easily hoodwinked.

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

Pizarro captured Atahuallpa within a few minutes after the two leaders first set eyes on each other. Pizarro proceeded to hold his prisoner for eight months, while extracting history's largest ransom in return for a promise to free him. After the ransom—enough gold to fill a room 22 feet long by 17 feet wide to a height of over 8 feet—was delivered, Pizarro reneged on his promise and executed Atahuallpa.

I had acquaintances...but then they'd always start trying to get away, like they'd turned over some stone in my personality and found a poisonous snake.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth," he said, with annoying clarity.

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

The best lies to tell, said Jane, are the ones people want to believe.

although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that—a hope—as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.

She and I had not exchanged an intelligent word since we first met five hours before, and the reason was readily explained: Mrs Tiffen was dead, and had been for several years.

He shook his head, looked around carefully and then lowered his voice. "Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then—and this is the important bit—do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies." "Thanks

It was loopholery at its very best.

Children are such consummate liars

I'm fine, I said, which is what people who aren't fine always say.

Según eso, también debe de haber falsos buenos —dedujo Olga. —Claro —dijo Melchor—. Son los verdaderos malos.

Cuando estalló el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco había mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenbürg, había mentido sobre todo lo demás. Es una deducción errónea, que delata una ignorancia espectacular sobre la naturaleza de las buenas mentiras y los buenos mentirosos: los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

Vatana gelince, o ÅŸeydir, her ÅŸeydir, o ne olduÄŸu bilinmeyen ÅŸeydir ya da basitçe söylemek gerekirse, rezillik, dalaverecilik yapman?n mazeretidir.

Así son siempre las leyendas, ¿no? Una mezcla de verdades y mentiras. Sólo que, si sumas una verdad y una mentira, el resultado es siempre una mentira.

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

A menudo el énfasis en la lealtad delata al traidor.

empecé a decirme que una buena mentira no es una mentira pura, exenta, que una mentira pura es una mentira inverosímil, que, para que sea verosímil, una mentira tiene que construirse en parte con verdades, y