Quotes About Deception

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have not done it yet. But I will look the same when I have done it; nobody will know the difference by looking at me. She touched the little puff twice to her nose and once to her chin. She closed the compact and put it away. ("Mind Over Murder")

HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one's own secret sins didn't matter. The

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one's own secret sins didn't matter. The cancer spread.

That man, the watchmaker! He's a Gestapo plant

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one's own secret sins didn't matter.

That's the S.D.'s favorite trick—feeling for a warm spot on a bed." © Hans Poley/Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam Two Jewish women during an actual drill of the hiding place in 1943.

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn't he?

Easy, laid back and sexy as all get out. That pretty much summed up Josh Dixon. And none of those things were what she should be thinking about right now. Untrustworthy, unreliable and unfaithful. That's what she should be thinking.

Flirts flirt. Players play. Charmers charm. And girls like Lauren? They get their heart broken because they always seem to try and give it to the wrong people.

Everything she'd believed had been a lie. And she'd never felt more alone in her life.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

A bloody knife is used again. The hand that stabs is stabbed within. The one you trust is not your friend, Like Julius Caesar in the end.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.

a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.