Quotes About Deception

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me.

Because our hearts are unprepared for truth, we cling to the deception as a shipwreck victim on a storm-tossed sea will grab at anything that floats. But the splintered rubble of our broken trust - those temporary buoys of our shattered dreams - betray us, gouging rough gashes into our souls, drawing our blood and leaving us to sink.

Behind and byond her looks,her manner, there had been some dark malaise. But nobody ever saw it, back then, he thought. All you saw was her face.

Helen,' said Mr Harrison, with a sigh, 'we all know that living with James can be very trying. But it does help to develop a resistance to some of his more flagrant lines of deception.

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

secrets have the power to break the world into two

But didn't you know? Everything is made up.

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope….I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition." Nonetheless

No matter what skullduggery and death Fitzy later caused no matter how great a coward & liar he proved himself I still believe he never wanted no more than this in life and when he danced with that bosomy Belinda at Mrs Robinson's there were no malice in him.

She could see herself still blushing and he was looking at her with those big dark eyes, as if he knew. But that was a trick of his, not an intentional trick but a misleading sign. He saw nothing.It looked as if he could see everything and people always gave him credit for it.

but offered him nothing beyond that. Dodger, for his part, would remove

millions of people "deeply believed things that were verifiably untrue.

mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree

On Betrayal , by Harold Pinter] …the sleight of hand that Harold has performed is that, while dealing with a triangular relationship, he's talking about something else ...If you start with self-betrayal, it gradually infects everything like a dreadful, destructive virus.

In Manchuria, I had learned one important fact about propaganda: the key information isn't what you put in, but what you leave out.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

He wrapped her around his hands and then yanked her inside out.