Quotes About Deception

I had just taken over the identity of a felon, with the murder weapon sitting right in my glove compartment.

Irene told me about you. A long time ago. I remember now. You fucked her when she was a teenager. Then you married her mother. Don't ever call me again.

A salad of honesty and deception is the only way I can get away with an untruth.

She slept with him once. Phoebe—well, Irene—told me she slept with her mother's fiancé when she took a course from him at college. Before he was her fiancé. He pursued her mom, just a few years later. She was horrified. She tried to stop it, the wedding. She even tried to talk to the guy, and he pretended like it never happened. She knew that if she told her mother the whole truth, her mother wouldn't believe her.

Then again, Owen also hadn't thought Irene was the kind of person to have an affair. Or the kind of person who wouldn't remind you that you'd actually

I've been ripped off, conned, lied to and cheated... but I'm still here. Cheaters never prosper. If stealing from you is the only way for them to get ahead - they're never going to get very far. Because thats all they are - just a thief. When they lose it, they can't rebuild because they don't know how. They never did the ground work in the first place. All they know is how to steal!

Hope is my enemy. It's worse than lies. It promises and it takes back. It teases and it rips my heart out.

The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might appear that some

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. —John Gotti CHAPTER

She was turning Royce into her knight in shining armor, and she knew all too well that was a fairy tale that didn't exist.

He's a tall drink of poison

Delusion needs an architecture;

I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

I fool you. I fool everyone.

I fool everybody!

I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want. In that case, I'm not only your enemy, I'm your nightmare.

Some people wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit 'em and had 'em for breakfast.

It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.

We are well," Hugh said, looking me over with more intensity than seemed proper. "And you?" "I'm well, thank you," I said, lying through my teeth. I'd been better the day I took to my bed with measles.

Life sucks when you find out Superman's a jerk.

You can dress a toad in lace, but the minute you let it go, it'll still poop on your porch.

We're given carefully spun answers to questions

I was struck again by the fact that, for all appearances, this was a beautiful life. A perfect life. It's so easy to make assumptions, passing by other people's homes at a distance.

Fear got faster feet than truth, sometime.