Quotes About Deception

your ego is nothing but a mean and cruel deceptive little freak living inside your head that will never bring joy and happiness to your life. What that ego will bring is frustration, depression, manipulation, and fear.

I fooled you, Ethel, I knew who you were all along. I can't believe you fell for that ma stuff. I just wanted to see if I could finally, finally make Ethel Rosenberg sing!

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Don't you think it's depressing?

and what is remembered is so seldom true

I smile sadly, in light of what came next to think that I told her If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve she made me a liar, too-- the woman who dug the hole I've been trying to write myself out of ever since

Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.

Truthful hyperbole' is a contradiction in terms. It's a way of saying, 'It's a lie, but who cares?' 

How might an unscrupulous person try to get around those famous laws, designed to protect humans, as well robots, from each other?

I get it," Merlin leaned forward. "The magician simply redirects attention to one of these other fifty-five thousand realities, thereby distracting others from the reality they're manipulating

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

Stol på meg, frøken Aemelin, folk som man kan lure, liker man litt mindre.

Folks make a terrible mistake when they put themselves in the devil's company and think they can outwit him. He's crafty and wants to eat you alive.

When we put our faith and trust in someone and they prove themselves to be false, it hurts.

I despise you. You are exactly the kind of man God warns against. Evil and vindictive, scheming and deceiving." "Be that as it may," Lockhart said, tracing her cheek with his finger, "you will marry me. Now I suggest you gather your things and then allow me to escort you to get the wagon. We will find the nearest preacher and then we'll leave immediately. You will take your brother and sister and settle into my house.

So many people pretended interest in one thing while truly seeking to benefit their own desires. She was thankful she'd learned early on about the games people played and the falsehoods of fools.

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way." Incredulous eyes met his own. "You like your potatoes burned?" Ah, so he'd been right about that. If he could still recognize what it was she'd cooked, then surely he could eat it.

Silence is better than a fabrication.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

A poem can lie.)

Sometimes this poem tells itself nothing matters, All's a joke. Relax, it says, everything's Taken care of. (A poem can lie.)

A nun's habit is authentic, but wearing one doesn't make you a nun.