Quotes About Deception

Oh no, no," said the little fly; "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.

T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.

Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

Sometimes the people we think we know the best are the ones with secrets we can't even fathom.

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

Esterhazy's nephew Christian, unexpectedly showed up. Esterhazy had bilked Christian of large sums, and Christian was eager to spill the beans on his reprehensible uncle.

Every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." (on Lillian Hellman)

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over.

Life is one game where people don't play fair.

broke into my house in the middle of the night and barged into our bedroom with a gun in her hand, she was the one who ended up dead. Even though I had accidentally shot her during a scuffle, we agreed that the best thing for us to do was to cover it up.

Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos.

Se preguntó por qué la gente a quien uno tenía un afecto más inocente era la que con tanta frecuencia exigía de uno el más atroz engaño.

The quickest thing to turn to hate is love betrayed.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it's a fake one.

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science."4

In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when someone effectively confronts the lie. But in really scary societies all public conversation is an exercise in using words to mean their opposites -- in describing the brave as traitorous , the weak as frightening , and the good as bad -- and confronting these lies is the most scary and lonely thing a person can do.