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Quotes About Deception

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.
~ Karl Germain
He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.
~ Neal Stephenson, Anathem
The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.
~ Scott B. Pruden
Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
~ Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.
~ Rebecca McKinsey
He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
...but I'd learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.
~ Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
Chocolate cured just about everything, but being a crocodile's chew-toy was on a whole other level.
~ Desiree Williams, Illusionary
A liar with a pen is a writer
~ Genesis Quihuis
Lia caught sight of it immediately and glared at him. "You gave me your word. You swore you wouldn't tell him.""I'm a mass murderer, " he said pointedly. "Not exactly trustworthy.
~ M. Kane, Queen of Thieves
What's your name?""Emma Gould, " she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?
~ Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
Are you going to give her gonorrhea too, or was that gift just for me?
~ Cassia Leo, Anti-Romance
If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.
~ Timmothy Radman
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
They say you can judge a person by their book, but I say they will hide under the covers.
~ Mozaiah Thompson
Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.
~ Charlie Chan
It was a smile that spelledtrouble. With a promise.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.
~ Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue
I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, " Beranabus grunts.
~ Darren Shan, Demon Apocalypse
Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they're all the same.
~ Tom Gething from "Sabotage"
if lying would be a crime, we would all be in jail right now
~ PLL.
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
~ Raheel Farooq
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
~ Patrick Rothfuss