Quotes About Deception

the business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you.

We have not one but two killers. And as implausible as it sounds, I don't think either one knew about the other.

Even your kids wised up and realized you're an idiot. An evil one, but still an idiot. - Amy, to Isabel

When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it.

cut there. He instantly knew what Patti had done.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible.

People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They

David Baldacci

could lie as well

In his previous career with the federal government he'd adopted false identities and traveled across the world. Fortunately, changing identities was stunningly easy to do in the computer age. A few clicks of the Dell, a server somewhere in India hummed, and from one's fancy laser printer out popped a new you with all the official bells, whistles and available credit.

Life was a shell game. The winners could just hide the truth better than everybody else.

David Baldacci

the parlance of the perception management field, the world had firmly entered the "gripper" stage, where the majority of people embraced as true everything they were told. It was far easier to accomplish this than most would care or dare to believe. It was easy to manipulate people. Folks had been doing it pretty much forever with results that had taken the world right to the edge of destruction.

David Baldacci

get information to sell, or blackmail them with.

You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.

And I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. - John Puller

David Baldacci

Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.

messing with you. I'm just trying to

Social media has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. It has to do with making shitloads of money off ads trying to sell people crap they don't need. But the terrible by-product of that is giving a global platform to the absolute worst elements of society. The result is that 'truth' is whatever you can convince people it is.

David Baldacci

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller