Quotes About Deception

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

There are two types of lazy bosses. One is so lazy that they make you do not only your own work but theirs too. Worse, they lie to you about it, unloading all responsibility for their actions. The other is so lazy that not only do they not do their own work but they can't even be bothered to provide you work to do. These bosses lie as well, but only to themselves, passively. The first is the hardest boss to work for, the second the easiest.

Le comble de la séduction, c'est de lui donner l'illusion que tu n'es pas en train d'essayer de la séduire.

Son un saco de maldades y un costal de malicias.

una Iglesia que ha olvidado el Evangelio y que, para no perder sus privilegios, miente, engaña y es capaz de interpretar las palabras de Jesús a su conveniencia.

the unfortunate case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks disguised only by lemon juice rubbed on his face. He believed this would make him invisible to security cameras.

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

A truthful enemy is better than a deceitful friend.

An annoying truth is better than a pleasing lie.

Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.

Fear is the greatest false prophet you will ever meet.

Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.

Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared...

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No." --Leonard Nimoy

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

The rook is my favourite piece,' she said. 'It's the one that you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it's the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity... Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to see yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realise – having done so – that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.