Quotes About Deception

It's the lie I'm thinking of. It might infect everything. If they ever found out you'd lied to them about this, the true things would suffer. They wouldn't believe anything then." "Yes, I see. But what can I tell them? I couldn't tell them the whole truth." "Maybe you can tell them a part truth, enough so that you won't suffer if they find out.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

She told the best lie of all—the truth.

Lee's voice said, "I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.

Omul este singurul parazit care-È™i preg?teÈ™te capcana, îi pune momeala, apoi calc? de bun?voie în ea.

All of these years I've cheated Liza. I've given her an untruth, a counterfeit, and I've saved the best for those dark sweet hours. And now I could wish that she may have had some secret caller too. But I'll never know that. I think she would maybe have bolted her heart shut and thrown the key to hell.

To a criminal, honesty is foolish.

It is true that ordinarily her voice was shrill, her face hard and sharp as a hatchet, her figure lumpy, and her intentions selfish.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape.

And every fall a great number of men set out to prove that without talent, training, knowledge, or practice they are dead shots with rifle or shotgun. The results are horrid.

Hay más belleza en la verdad, aunque sea una verdad terrible. Los narradores de historias de las ciudades falsean de tal manera la vida, que la hacen parecer dulce a los ojos de los perezosos, de los estúpidos y de los débiles, y eso sólo contribuye a reforzar sus flaquezas, sin enseñarles nada, ni hacerles el menor bien, ni engrandecer su corazón

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.

Ä°nan?lmayan bir doÄŸru adama bir yalandan çok daha fazla zarar verebilir. Zaman?m?z?n kabullenemeyeceÄŸi bir doÄŸruyu desteklemek büyük cesaret gerektirir. Bir cezas? vard?r, genellikle de çarm?ha gerilmektir bu ceza.

Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: she trusted no one, confided in no one. Her self was an island.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

With his white collar he forges god's name on every word he speaks

I love you," he says, and the fact that he doesn't makes it true.

He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make.

Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.

Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.

Wipe your mouth, there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.

Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.