Quotes About Deception

Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself. If you wanna think you're a new man, hell, that's fine. But don't think you're looking any different in anyone else's mind.

literature. There has been a myth for decades, now well debunked by more than twenty studies, that a person looking away or to the side while answering a question is being deceptive.

Commandment 8: Learning to detect false or misleading nonverbal signals is also critical.

predators and habitual liars actually engage in greater eye contact than most individuals, and will lock eyes with you. Research clearly shows that Machiavellian people (for example, psychopaths, con men, and habitual liars) will actually increase eye contact during deception (Ekman, 1991, 141–142).

A rule of thumb: the truth teller merely conveys, while the liar often tries to convince.

Truthful people convey, the dishonest try to convince.

I learned at an early age about deception. People often lie, but their nonverbals usually reveal how they actually feel.

Sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.

A writer worth his salt is not going to write about how damned lovely it is; it isn't, that's why so many people tell themselves it is [lovely].

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Your friendliness with people does not make them your friends.

All friends are not the same. We have true friends and we have fake friends. Which one are you? Which one do you have?

Someone can claim they love you and still destroy you. But someone who is a friend indeed, will love you to the end.

God says in Jeremiah 6:14: They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.

There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I'm startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

Oh, by the way, the plot: it almost slipped my mind. Charlie French bought my mother's pictures cheap and sold them dear to Binkie Behrens, then bought them cheap from Binkie and sold them on to Max Molyneaux. Something like that. Does it matter? Dark deeds, dark deeds. Enough.

The world is always ready to be amazed, but the self, that lynx-eyed monitor, sees all the subterfuges, all the cut corners, and is not deceived.

And anyway, who's to say that what we see when we're drunk is not reality, and the sober world a bleared phantasmagoria

She trained her camera on a fresh-faced hopeful but the pictures she produced were the mug-shots of a raddled old confidence trickster. Exposed, yes, that is the word

Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening.