Quotes About Deception

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Would you ever have thought I might choose a lie for the sake of my own happiness? The Whisperer's version of happiness is an illusion -- it doesn't take away your fears, it only lies about them, makes you temporarily believe you don't have them. And I know it's a lie, but what a powerful one! Maybe I'm not who I always thought myself to be. Maybe I'm the sort of person who will do anything to hear what I want to believe...

It was clear Jackson was the sort of young man who considers himself rather smarter than he is, and who is naturally cruel but thinks himself a decent fellow.

a lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2.

When looking in my looking glass I spied a trusted face. Alas, Not to be taken for him am I. Beware, therefore, the Gemini.

I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.

You don't need to look like a monster to be one,' replied the Doctor.

Before long the dark and dangerous Myrddin had become a good and helpful wizard, and I had been painted the vicious usurper who had seduced and betrayed him and imprisoned him in a forest

A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I'm cursed when it comes to women.

The right rumour in the right ears can kill the emperor, as they say.

I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Samsara es tu mente, y Nirvana es también tu mente; todo placer y dolor, y todos los engaños, no existen en otra parte sino en tu mente. Lograr el control de tu propia mente: este es el corazón de la práctica para el bardo del devenir.

There is an uncommonly harsh beauty to the Tibetan landscape. Its nakedness makes it seem incapable of deception, but under its calm deportment it conceals winds so brutal that yaks are known to die while their jaws are in masticating bliss. On hot summer days the sun licks up the rain within minutes. No puddles are formed; no moisture lingers in the air. It is only the droplets on tiny leaves of the baby turnip plant that betray rain.

You often hear people say the news is full of lies. But most of the time that's not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read in The New York Times is in fact true in the literal sense, But that doesn't make it true. It's not true. At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie. A lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

Maybe, maybe we can survive together, no matter what they want to do to us out there. They don't know that their world is fake and ours is real.

That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!

The dragons who like you now are the ones most likely to betray you. Believe me. I know.

Or was your mission to poison the queen?