Quotes About Deception

You think you've found the perfect mate and you head for him, blinking as fast as you can, and then you find out he's a Bic lighter.

Fact #99 Men are like chocolate bonbons. The ones with the most attractive outsides have the worst fillings.

It's not what you project... it's what you don't show.

Justine, whenever someone says 'this is for your own good,' it's a guarantee they're about to cause you some kind of damage.

All hat, no cattle...doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone else. - Texas saying

Whispers can't hurt you," Pandora said. Cassandra gave her twin a chiding glance. "Whispers can gut and fillet you like a haddock.

do you know what lying has in common with bullfighting?" "No, sir." "If you can't do it well, it's better not to do it at all.

Just because you can look a man in the eyes when you lie doesn't mean you've fooled him.

Poppy, this is London society, where the truth can get you into trouble. If you tell one truth, you'll have to tell another truth, and another, to keep covering up.

Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is only more facade.

We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and sweet-tempered and that we don't mind the other's nasty little habits. And then after the wedding, we lower the boom.

I don't believe in love," he said. "It's a sugar-coated pill—the first taste is tolerable enough, but you quickly reach the bitter layers beneath.

Beatrix fled to the one place where she knew he wouldn't find her. The irony was hardly lost on her, that she was hiding from Christopher in the place she had most longed to share with him. And she was well aware that she could not hide from him forever. There would be a reckoning. But after having seen his face when he realized that she was the one who had deceived him, Beatrix wanted to put off that reckoning for as long as possible.

Matthew groaned inwardly. He hated games that served no purpose other than to make fools out of the participants.

I'm not kind, darling. I'm only nice to people when I'm planning to take advantage of them." Lillian responded with a carefree grin, daring to ask, "Am I in danger from you, my lord?" Though his expression remained relaxed with good humor, his eyes were disturbingly intent. "I'm afraid so.

St. Vincent was a handsome man with wheat-colored hair and pale blue eyes. Some claimed he had the most perfect form and features of any man alive. The looks of a saint, the soul of a scoundrel.

Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.

And now she's right where she wants to be, Lucy thought with a stab of fury. How easily men were taken in by women! A few tears, some sweet Southern helplessness. Oh,it must have been ridiculously easy for Raine.And here she, Lucy, was, harboring the woman under her own roof! It had the makings of a fine farce.

I thought he was your friend." "Oh, he is. But have no illusions about Winterborne. He's not like any man you've ever known, nor is he someone your parents would have allowed you to meet in society.

Can't he show hospitality to a friend without an ulterior motive?" West parried. She shook her head. "Everything your brother does has an ulterior motive.

What is this errand, and when will you come back?" "It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.'" "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee)

Men are so easily drawn to fake things.