Quotes About Deception

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Satan seeks to blind us with his lies about God. Instead of the freedom and victory that can be ours, he wants us to be defeated and in bondage. He delights in deceiving us about the character of our God and wants us to believe that God doesn't love us, that He is not good, not in control, not fair, not caring, and any other lie that he can convince us to believe.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

It was in an atomiser, and she used to squirt it around her bedroom after she had finished a cigarette. On these occasions, my mother always said, "Do you think we are teaching the child deception?" And Aunt Edna always replied , "No, just self-preservation.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

Il petrolio è la merda del diavolo, non ti fidare di quello che sembra una fortuna. Perché è peggio di una trappola per scimmie. E sempre quello che per i ricchi è una fortuna, per i poveri è una disgrazia.

Chintesen?a celei mai dulci am?giri, nu este iubirea? Un pumn de zah?r care-?i schimb? moleculele, se umfl? ?i ne ademene?te, apoi în contact cu cavitatea cald? a membrelor dispare ca iluzoria substan?? a viselor.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

Oh my," she said, feigning innocent. She fanned a hand over her face. "Revenge is so sweet!

The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don't believe people can be fooled that easily.

They're cloying, with their sancity-of-marriage act.

She had been swimming in a big pink aquarium, and she never thought that somebody would come along with a hammer and break it until she was gasping for her life and everything she had taken for granted, for permanent, was gone.

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

This is not even the stuff dictators are made of, but this is the kind of madness which is often not found out until it is too late.' Campion