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Quotes About Deception

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
~ Iain Pears
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
~ Iain Pears
Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.
~ Iain Pears
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
~ Iain Pears
I made up my mind to tell Joe about what was going on at home after the funny business about Molly's letter. As I went to sleep I imagined myself telling Joe even about the the funny marble feeling that came over me from time to time. Then I remembered a lot of the whopping lies I had told Joe about my mother and father.
~ Unknown
I was frightened again, knowing thatmy having seen God that morning was only my stupid imagination. Everything was going to be as bad as it had ever been.
~ Unknown
A woman should be an illusion.
~ Ian Fleming
No hay tal crudeza —recalca—. So pena que se llame así a trasplantar la vida como es. Las gentes a quienes espanta mi realidad son fariseos que viven, sin asustarse, la misma realidad de mi teatro.»
~ Unknown
Ce anume ne-a f?cut de fapt s? îl urm?m în abisul în care acesta ne-a condus, la fel cum l-au urmat copii din poveste pe Cânt?reÈ›ul din flaut? Enigma nu este Hitler, Enigma suntem noi.
~ Ian Kershaw
But there is a truth here; seeing is magical. Looking kills. The longer I looked, the more the magic faded.
~ Unknown
the large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
~ Unknown
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
~ Unknown
If that woman looks like a million dollars and puts it right in your face, that one you get away from," R.D. told him. "That one in the corner who is quiet? That's the one you go after.
~ Unknown
We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?
~ Ian Rankin
You double bolted your door against the psychopath with the chainsaw, only to be stabbed in the back by your lover, husband, son or neighbour.
~ Ian Rankin
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
~ Ian Rankin
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
~ Ice Cube
Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning bitch had dollar signs for eyeballs
~ Iceberg Slim
Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet. Believe me, Slim, a pimp is really a whore who's reversed the game on whores. Slim, be as sweet as the scratch. Don't be no sweeter. Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. A whore ain't nothing but a trick to a pimp. Don't let em Georgia you. Always get your money in front just like a whore. Whores in a stable are like working chumps in the white man's factory..
~ Iceberg Slim
I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.
~ Iceberg Slim
He took the bait like a rapist in a nudist colony for the blind.
~ Iceberg Slim
croak us for free. He'd suck Nino's ass with a straw.
~ Iceberg Slim
I had been bigger sucker than a square mark. All he loses is scratch. I had joined a club that suckered me behind bars fives times.
~ Iceberg Slim
Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
~ Unknown