Quotes About Deception

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.

Now you're looking for the secret, but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Listen to me. We've been had." "By whom? How?" "Toby Stonewood. He's played us from the start." "Toby? The Duke of Suffolk?" "One and the same." Simon couldn't stand how the English never wanted to believe the worst of their landed gentry. Even the most casual perusal of English history showed them to be venal, dishonest, and without scruples. And those were the good ones.

When we accept a lie, no matter how Satan got us to believe it, we transfer our belief from one Father (God) to believing another father (the enemy of our souls).

There's more than one way to fuck someone over. Do it hard so they never forget or do it quietly so they never know you were there.

You are nothing. You are less than nothing. You are a child. That is how your opponents must see you. They will underestimate your skills because of your age and size. That is your advantage. But you must never see yourself that way. Draw them to attack. Feign weakness. Feign fear. And strike when they are close.

The only people who lawyer up faster than dirty cops are dirty lawyers.

At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

The best way to recognize a lie is to already know the truth, and so we need to have the truth of God's Word stored away in our hearts and minds.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

How tragic and foolish! Yet, people worship these things and say, "That's God.

Lies, are truths with no scrutiny

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed.

Me da lo que quiere darme, sabiendo que voy a aceptar cualquier limosna que venga del rey que le hice creer que es.

Nunca les pasó estar con alguien muy hermoso? Ver a esa persona, escucharla hablar, seguir cada uno de sus fascinantes gestos, admirar su belleza… y más tarde mirarse en el espejo y darse cuenta de que uno es horrible y que estuvo creyéndose bello simplemente porque estaba mirando a alguien lindo que resultó no ser uno.

Han smiled, then, a bright, charming smile that lit up the room, more dangerous than any blade. All you ever needed was that smile, she thought. I'd have given in immediately.

You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you." "I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse

So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.