Quotes About Deception

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Leroy unscrewed the hose from its faucet and prepared to put it away in the basement, thinking: Nobody can put nothing over on Rhoda, I'll say that much for her. And nobody can put nothing over on me, neither. I guess Rhoda and me are just alike. But in this he was mistaken, as we shall see in time, for Rhoda was able to put into action the things that he could only turn over in his mind as fantasies.

In Washington, truth is never told in daylight hours or across a desk

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

But Hall was not stopping there. The next stage was for him and Drake to send false reports back, using the names of spies who had actually been arrested – a technique that was perfected in the Second World War – to give the impression that they had uncovered military preparations to invade the German coast in Schleswig-Holstein. The purpose was to force the enemy fleet out to defend their coast.

All Cretans are liars, as a Cretan poet once told me.

it hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart! -

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

Facts just twist the truth around.

In the end he slunk out of Normandy in December 1203, like a thief in the night.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

The expression 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics' was popularised by Mark Twain and attributed by him, in his autobiography, to the nineteenth-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Statistics can easily fool us if used incorrectly, or if we fail to take in the whole picture of what's going on. The situation is even worse when data are presented in a way that's deliberately misleading – as often happens in advertising and politics. Without resorting to outright lies, there are plenty of ways to distort data to create a false impression.

once the existence of facts was denied then everything was a lie.

I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery. --- Ann Eliza Young, page 253

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

Minos says I'm nothing more than Nothing. Can Nothing take a form and call it me? But nothing is ever what it seems. Watch Nothing laugh. See Nothing cry. Hear Nothing scream.

My worldview was very much the product of Adventism. Although our Adventist pioneers courageously challenged the understandings of the churches out of which they came, I grew up fearing that if I questioned what I had been taught I was opening my mind to Satan's deceptions.

Habría sido capaz de ver en su regreso algo distinto del oportunismo. Pero ni siquiera me permitió esa mentira.

Quand deux personnes se mentent sur le même sujet, il y a peu de chances de se démasquer.