Quotes About Deception

A well-constructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact, which will as easily make a pyramid as a platform.

Uma mentira bem construída é montada em grande parte com os blocos de fatos, que podem erguer tanto uma pirâmide quanto uma plataforma.

A ver si te entiendo. Dices que no crees su relato porque es demasiado creíble. —En efecto —asentí tranquilamente—, Kevin puede ser un chico intrigante y malicioso, pero su profesora de lengua está en lo cierto: es agudo como un estilete. —¿Te pareció que se moría de ganas de salir a declarar? —¡Claro que no! Es un genio.

Envuelta en papel celofán, la buena vida era un regalo envenenado.

Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?

Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Here's a little secret: ironically, people with dominant Seductor Imposters might seem to crave intimacy—they certainly draw people into their orbit with the promise of it—but what actually animates them behind the scenes is fear of it.

The Seductor Imposter definitely has its superpowers, of course: charm, charisma, zeal, and spontaneity.

Everyone thinks that. That's the reason people cheat on their spouses, because this new relationship is just so exciting and new.

Remember What Mama used To Say : " You Cant Tell a Book By Its Cover

You have anxiety?" "No. But I told them I did and they said I could bring my dog.

amazing how boring you can get away with being when you're pretty. No one seems to notice. When you're pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things and I scare myself sometimes. I wake in the middle of the night and I've twisted myself

didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person you're trying to manipulate nowhere to go.

I remember his face when my father said that he no longer had private health cover, how quickly he left the house, how he dropped his unctuous demeanor like a brick. He sent him straight to the hospital in an NHS ambulance and left without saying goodbye.

But what you just said, about him being dangerous. What do you mean by that?" "I mean," says Blue, "that a man who can't love but desperately needs to be lived is a dangerous thing indeed. And I think Floyd is dangerous because she's pretending to be someone he's not in order to get you to love him.

Never marry a woman. They might look good, but they destroy you.

But what you just said, about him being dangerous. What do you mean by that?" "I mean," says Blue, "that a man who can't love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed. And I think Floyd is dangerous because he's pretending to be someone he's not in order to get you to love him.

My father's going to take everything you own and then break your life.

She groomed me to have sex with her lover when I was thirteen.' 'Her lover?' 'David Thomsen. He was forty-six. Maybe older. She wanted me to get pregnant by him because she wasn't able to. So she groomed me. She left me alone with him. Made out it was romantic.

At thirty-two years of age, Rachel tried not to dwell too much on the fact that her entire adult existence was a mirage.

She told us all these lies about her, that she used to be a prostitute, brought tricks into the house, that she used to beat her and starve her and of course we were small so we believed her. But then our dad told us it wasn't true, that Mum was just jealous of Grandma because she'd been with Dad before her.