Quotes About Deception

bu öyküyü anlatmak istiyordum ama ne bizim dünyam?zda ne de düÅŸsel hayvanlar?n dünyas?nda, içinde bulunduÄŸu yaln?zl?k tehlikesinden kurtulmak için kendi kendine yalan söyleyen bir canl? bulabildim. Bunu yaln?zca insan yapabiliyordu.

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you will create a smaller life within your main life. The first secret will spin off other secrets that also must be kept, complicated webs of evasion that grow into elaborate architectures of repressed truths and subterfuge, until you discover that you must live two narratives at once.

A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don't even realize it. They're opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They're opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world's gone weird.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap.

Their perpetual readiness for play is endearing, and their willingness to forgive deception time after time is one of the key differences between the heart of a dog and the human heart. Trixie

Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put

Then she looked into the shepherd's eyes and saw what is to be seen in every dog's eyes if it has not been broken by a cruel master: trust, strength without arrogance, a desire to give and receive affection—and an honesty so pure that deception, if contemplated, cannot be perpetrated.

The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

There's not much news in the news anymore. The lies they tell don't leave a lot of time for the facts about anything.

behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

She was so nice to look at that Joe twice stabbed his left foot when he thought he was spearing a bit of litter, though neither wound was serious enough to require a tetanus shot.

The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears.

I didn't think she would willingly give me up to the hulk; but he would break her like a ceramic bank to get at the coins of knowledge that she held.

Once, when cornered by a pinwheel-eyed man who insisted that the mayor of Los Angeles was not human but a robot controlled by the audioanimatronics department at Disneyland, Joe had lowered his voice and said, with nervous sincerity, "Yes, we've known about that for years. But if we print a word of it, the people at Disney will kill us all." He had spoken with such conviction that the nutball had exploded backward and fled.

Words are plastic these days. Small loans made to desperate people at exorbitant interest rates are called payday advances. A cheesy hotel paired with a seedy casino is called a resort. Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture.