Quotes About Deception

But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear.

he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from most.

Like most people, he believed that lies, no matter how often you told them, never became truth.

We thought our reflection in the mirror was who we truly were, when how we saw ourselves and how others saw us was often not the same. Likewise, we often deceived over selves when we thought we saw ourselves most clearly.

Americans liked seeing people eye to eye, the General had once told me, especially as they screwed them from behind.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do. They take advantage of things...and they don't question things. As long as those things work for them, then they support those things. But you see the lie beneath those things because you never got to take part.

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.

if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth and then behind that truth to see the lie.

Are you angry because they lied or are you angry because you believed it?

Beware of a naked person who promises to buy you clothes.

Beware of a wicked man who is trying to be generous.

Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laugh with you.

Congress is where the liars and thieves meet.

Dance with the Devil and he may make you the king of Hell.

Does anyone ever lie to us more than we lie to ourselves?

Don't trust in smile every time because evil always enters smiling.

Don't trust the man who always keeps smiling.

God really doesn't reside in any temple, he is just an imposter who stays outside it for some time and meanwhile we fail to recognise and miss him.

He who thinks to deceive God has already deceived himself.

Just because someone looks good doesn't mean that they should be respected and trusted.

Remember, those are not all your friends who laugh with you.

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts.

Some people will slap you on the back behind your face and then slap you in the face behind your back.

The deadliest relationship is life is the person who destroys your hope.