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Quotes About Deception

We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
~ John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
The fishhook catches the fish
~ Unknown
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
~ Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death
~ Terry Pratchett, The Truth
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Perhaps death is just a big lie.
~ Unknown
This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.
~ Michael Rosen
I lost my beautiful mind with a nasty lady, i give her the true pure of love and she gives me a slow poison of death
~ Unknown
You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.
~ Arthur K. Flam
no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.
~ Unknown
I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.
~ Agatha Christie
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.
~ Lee Smith, On Agate Hill
This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.
~ Patricia Briggs, On the Prowl
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
~ Samuel Richardson
You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.
~ Richelle Mead
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
~ Penn Jillette
Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
~ Joseph Butler
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
~ Sissela Bok
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.
~ Zoroaster
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
~ Michael Drayton