Quotes About Deception

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

Sometimes it is hard to know what the truth is. And sometimes truth is pain. Easier to hide the truth and make a secret of it, than to face it. -Chapter 22, page 254

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them.

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

There is no language without deceit.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

And I see the houses of the human race perched on the edge of the sea, shipwrecked in their false neighborliness.

I report to the revolutionaries infiltrated among the counterrevolutionary infiltrators.

Orlando, sevda orman? sana göre yer de?ildir! Alçakça tuzaklar?ndan seni hiçbir kalkan?n koruyamayaca?? bir dü?man?n pe?inden ko?uyorsun.

Yalan, sözlerde de?il ?eylerdedir.

Entrai a Ipazia un mattino, un giardino di magnolie si specchiava su lagune azzurre, io andavo tra le siepi sicuro di scoprire belle e giovani dame fare il bagno: ma in fondo all'acqua i granchi mordevano gli occhi delle suicide con la pietra legata al collo e i capelli verdi d'alghe.

La menzogna non è nel discorso, è nelle cose.

But by now all his stories are so saturated with falsehood that anything said about him is false. He's succeeded in this, at least.

O bella! Questo suddito qui che c'è ma non sa d'esserci e quel mio paladino là che sa d'esserci e invece non c'è. Fanno un bel paio, ve lo dico io!

Here is page 31 again, page 32 ... and then what comes next? Page 17 all over again, a third time! What kind of book did they sell you, anyway? They bound together all these copies of the same signature, not another page in the whole book is any good.

When my eyes closed, however, in the darkness I saw that her words had created a new world, like all words that are not true. I

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.