Quotes About Deception

Do Mom and Dad know you're dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I'll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

Wow. Nice bike," I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

A ses yeux, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de bonté était bon, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de loyauté était loyal. Celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs d'intelligence, intelligent. C'est ainsi qu'il n'avait jamais vu clair en sa fille, ni en sa femme, ni en sa seule et unique maîtresse – il était sans doute loin de voir clair en lui...

What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.

but all that rose to the surface was more surface.

What is the archetypal Bible story? A story of betrayal. Of treachery. It's just one deception after another.

You know what he did for a living before the war? Sold champagne. A liquor salesman, Sandy. A fake—a plutocrat and a thief and a fake. Even the 'von' in his name is a fake.

I don't believe lies are something to stand on. I believe lies are something to build on.

sostuvieron a base de falsas esperanzas y al final nos enviaron a la muerte por vía férrea.

Someone to whom the tangible and the immediate are repugnant, to whom only the illusion is fully real.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.