Quotes About Deception

You must tell me the truth. I've seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go.

I knew then how I would destroy them if I ever got out of Blessington. I would give Dante LaRosa the information he wanted.

It was all terrifyingly close and painfully hollow, the prison that neither I nor my mother had ever seen in the life she'd chosen for me.

People see what they want to see. They're busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don't expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I'm right in front of them. I'm hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It's a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn't as you imagined me.

No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.

Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra All in the World is Smoke and Shadow –Latin motto

It was useless, as pointless as it ever was. "She's a succubus, you fool.

How could he look exactly the same as he always did? How could he so nonchalantly shatter all the things I'd believed and bear no outward sign of it? I didn't understand. It seemed to me that if someone hurt you, there should be some kind of boomerang effect. They should get hit with it, too, so it wasn't just you. So they didn't get off scot-free while you marinated in the pain.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

Decirle a la gente lo que quiere oír solo para que se sientan mejor no es mejor que mentir

had learned from painful experience would lead to whispers and the shaking of heads. Gossip grew quickly from seeds into vast, tangling jungles of strangling vines and carnivorous flowers. You could spend years trying to hack your way out of that poisoned garden.

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe Your own crocodile lies.

I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth). The subtleties of the Path are finer than a hair. The least hypocrisy becomes a wave that washes one off the Path. It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows. In the guise of honesty this self even deceives itself. For instance your self claims, I love Baba. The fact is, if you really loved Baba you would not be your false self making the self-asserting statement!

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well!

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!