Quotes About Deception

He was putting on a show for us, that much was clear, but why were we all watching it?

But Horoscope is not home when Turpin comes to him for advice, so Horoscope's assistant, Titus Parable, poses as Horoscope.

Gertrude is sweet and trusting and innocent in the ways of men, which is why she falls victim to such a selfish, self-absorbed putz.

And the and-then-I-woke-up-and-it-was-all-a-dream ending is simply inexcusable in fiction intended for an audience over the age of four.   The Golden Bottle will take two hours from the readers' life that they won't get back.

The truth hurts only if you're comforted by lies.

you broke up two marriages, and faked a young woman's illness, and bribed her to get an abortion—all in the first chapter—

He wanted to believe that I was a good person and I wanted to believe that he was just another asshole.

Matthew, confess now. Are you a closeted font nerd? Do you go to these conferences? I promise I won't respect you any less if you are. OK, fine, secretly I will, but it's better to get this off your chest and be who you are, than to live in deception. Hiding the truth will only cripple your emotional development Well, I'm sorry to dissapoint you. I'm not a font nerd. You can email me in Papyrus and I won't care.

I'm considering whether or not to believe you. I need to run an algorithm on this. That's not funny. You might be trying to trick me into sleeping with you.

Beer goggles are no match for atrocious lighting.

Cauliflower pretending to be rice, oat milk pretending to be cow's milk. Jackfruit pretending to be meat when it's nothing like it. Nothing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ substantial.

Did he repeatedly stab me in the heart, or did I just keep running into the knife he aimed at me?

Hatred is hurt masquerading-it is an energy used to fool someone into thinking they are frightening when in truth they are frightened.

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.