Quotes About Deception

Great liars are also great magicians.

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.

The children of the lie use emotions to manipulate.

That might be a bit harsh," I began. "No, it isn't," he snapped. "Which was it?" "Your fa—Jamie. He'd never deceive another man in his marriage.

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal

Alas, poor Yorick! he said. She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?

Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely!" Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

He lied about that. He didn't want to annoy you. He's a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.

My shining dishonesty will be my salvation

The more I see of witchcraft, the more it seems just an easy way to be nasty.

His bedroom door did escape him. "What a lie that was!" Howl remarked as he walked into the wall. "My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me." He walked into the wall several times more, in several different places, before he discovered his bedroom door and crashed his way through it. Sophie could hear him falling about, saying that his bed was dodging.

Hasn't anyone ever told you that the Devil, however he appears, is never a perfect gentleman?

He was standing holding the door to the stairs open with an arm that was entirely hidden inside an immense blue-and-silver sleeve. His feet, on the bottom stair, were standing inside the top half of a gigantic blue-and-silver jacket. Howl's other arm did not come anywhere near the other huge sleeve. Sophie could see that arm in outline, making bulging gestures under a vast frill of collar. Behind Howl, the stairs were full of blue-and-silver suit trailing back all the way to his bedroom.

I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has been made so that she thinks Chris is just round the corner all the time. She doesn't realise that she never sees him. I don't know why I didn't understand earlier. If Aunt Maria can turn Chris into a wolf, she's surely strong enough to do this to Mum- except that it seems a different kind of thing, much more natural and ordinary, and I didn't really think she could do both kinds.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Irena Sendler (code name Jolanta) described it. A Christian doctor's daughter with many Jewish friends, she reconfigured her job at the Social Welfare Department, recruited ten like-minded others, and began issuing false documents with forged signatures.

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons. - Travis from The Good Father

to be honest, and I'm not

Hervey Cleckley, M.D., from The Mask of Sanity