Quotes About Deception

a German spy landing off the coast of Norfolk, walking into a village and banging on a pub door to ask in perfectly accented English for a glass of hard cider. The publican gave him a drink, made an excuse and went out the back to fetch the local policeman. The only person in Britain who didn't know you couldn't get alcohol at nine in the morning would be a German spy.

You wouldn't know it had claimed so many hopeful, thrashing, gasping lives, but that's the thing with the sea, it never looks guilty.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

The actions of m?y? are such that a powerful person, misled by the illusory, material energy, wrongly accepts himself as all in all and does not develop God consciousness.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

I to my perils Of cheat and charmer Came clad in armour By stars benign. Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Tu mirada traiciona la voluntad de tu corazón.

Empezó a tener una leve idea de lo que quería decir, y quedó maravillado al pensar en cuántos hombres andaban por el mundo, de aspecto vulgar y tranquilo, que ocultaban fantasías exóticas y poéticas creencias, insospechadas siquiera, hasta que la enfermedad privaba al cerebro de su gobierno.

It is not in truth very difficult to befool a man who does half the fooling himself.

There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.

the smile on his lips didn't reach his eyes.

Showing the light to birds of the night is like hiding it from them, because it blinds them and becomes for them more obscure than darkness.

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

Les théâtres, les jeux, les farces, les spectacles, les gladiateurs, les bêtes étranges, les médailles, les tableaux et autres telles drogueries, c'étaient aux peuples anciens les appâts de la servitude, le prix de leur liberté, les outils de la tyrannie.

My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

Common sense dictates that I can not literally vanish a half million square foot monument. But it is conceivable that I can, for a short period of time, cause that monument to appear invisible to our audience.

Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn." "That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.

There is a saying, drawn from the ages of Old Earth and written by a council of Ancient Merican kings, that all men were created equal. I'd often wondered if the words sounded as false and idealistic to those men's ears as they did to mine. Truly, humanity has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.