Quotes About Deception

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

You're lying," he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn't. "I am not-" "You can say it a million times, but that doesn't make it any more true." Peter smiled then, so guileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. "You might be able to fool Dad, and the cops, and anyone else who'll listen," he said. "You just can't fool another liar.

We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Only the liar knows that he's lying.

I have met convicted child molesters before. They don't waer badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It's hidden under a soft, grandfatherly smile; it's tucked in the pocket of a buttoned down shirt. They look the rest of us, and that's what makes it so frightening - to know that these beasts move among us, and we are none the wisest. They have girlfriends and wives who have loved them, unaware.

As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.

Security was a mirage; being tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie.

The best lies are the ones that are wrapped around a core of truth.

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

Only cheats go back on a promise.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

It is amazing how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.

you cannot take something i trust you with and use it against me -- plain truth

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened.

You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.

You might tell yourself that candor is the foundation of a relationship, but even that would be untrue. You are far more likely to lie to yourself, or your loved one, if you think it will keep the pain at bay.