Quotes About Deception

The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time.

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

I would then like to know how it comes about that when each piece of a story is true, the whole story turns out to be false?

I take it these people have some sense; they see plainly that Judge Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it, and thus it escapes.

A dark heart sees the things that an honest one is blinded to by the nature of its own goodness.

loves to distort Scripture so he can use it to curse us.

Stay strong. Know you are not the first woman to be duped by a man. You won't be the last. But from now on, you'll be a lot wiser in your choices.

Control is just an illusion.

than that as Bex turned her back and started to take

To be the other woman is to be a season that is always about to end, when the air is flowered with jasmine and peach, and the weather day after day is flawless, and the forecast is hurricane.

The innocent wept. The guilty pretended.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

But you do choose not to reveal all the facts, which the way I see it is another form of lying." She sipped her wine.

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one,' Faustus said quietly. 'The worse he is, the more he claims – and even believes – that traditional religion and democracy matter to him deeply and determine all his actions.

I've lied / to you The same way that I always do This is / the last smile That I'll fake for the sake of being with you

I know I'll never trust a single thing you say You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway And all the lies have got you floating up above us all But what goes up has got to fall

Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

He had learned what all skilled liars register if they're ever to make a career of it: Always appropriate as much of the truth as possible. A wellconstructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact

Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.

I had created my own Other Woman who happened to be a boy. I'd seen this in-house cuckolding in other families, and it's odd that I'd failed to spot it in ours.