Quotes About Deception

No more pretending for him! He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.

Let me tell you, the bite of the serpent is nothing compared to the bite of your fellow man.

You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.

A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it'll humiliate you both. Best just to live with the bullshit.

He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.

Race don't come into it. They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won't catch them making off with the feast.

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

We all believe lies that bring us more comfort than the truth.

She had straight brown hair that fell to her shoulders, a rock the size of a Prius on her left ring finger, and she might have been pretty if the skin weren't stretched so tight against her face it gave her the unfortunate look of someone who'd been struck by lightning during an orgasm.

I can't think of one reason big enough for them to lie and small enough for it not to matter.

She would rather have known the lie that was Brian than the truth of anything else in her life.

A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies.

Power, most power anyway, was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won't catch them making off with the feast.

Power—most power anyway, certainly Vidalia's brand of it—was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it'll humiliate you both. Best to just live with the bullshit.

Then how did he manage to deceive you? Because I let him. And why would you do that? Because I wanted to feel safe. Safety is an illusion we sell to children to help them sleep. Then I wanted to be a child.

A man is the stories he tells about himself and most of those stories are lies. And never look too closely if you uncover his lies, it will humiliate you both. Its best to just live with the bullshit." Then her mother kissed her head, patted her cheek, told her she was safe.

If you go through life cheating others, you will go through life expecting others to cheat you. Liars expect to be lied to; cheaters expect to be cheated; and so on.

There were slave traders, Nazis, and Communists who were compassionate in their personal lives, but all of them told, and most of them believed, some great lie that enabled them to participate in a great evil. Black slavery was made possible in large measure by the lie that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

These three steps offer a classic presentation of the way people are often led to do wrong: Exaggerate, then denigrate the other side's motive, then promise a reward.

But we pay a price for everyone's putting on a happy face—we start believing that life for everyone else is great. I wonder what effect

Who with the Devil tries to play fair, weaves the net of his own despair. Oh, smile; what's a house between drunkards?