Quotes About Deception

also think sometimes he'd say something just to piss somebody off, even if it wasn't exactly what he thought, just to fuck with somebody. And if that person wasn't bright enough to catch on that they were just being fucked with, then they might go away thinking that yeah, he is a racist or he is a homophobe.

Except for carrying a sign that read I AM A SPY, Mordechai Vanunu seemed to have done all he could to expose his secret life.

You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.

That woman is hiding something!" she said. "You think everyone's hiding something." "And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

Trickster," he said, sniffing the boy. "Love will be the end of you.

Keep your distance, men. Don't be fooled into believing that our enemies are helpless. These 'girls', as they call themselves are a crafty bunch. I've see inside the thing they call a 'purse'. It is filled with all kinds of toxic sprays and pointy things they wouldn't hesitate unleashed on us

That woman is hiding something!" she said. "You think everyone's hiding something." "And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

2. At the very end of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf's stomach is filled with a. Granny's famous chicken wings b. Granny c. absolutely nothing

4. The Evil Sorceress who finds Hansel and Gretel plans to a. feed them her leftovers forever b. make them clean her house all day long c. hold them hostage until their parents pay for them d. eat them

I can't believe the Three Little Pigs are working for the bad guy." Daphne sighed. "I can't believe anyone still calls them the three little pigs." Mirror tittered. "That trio has been tipping the scales for as long as I can remember.

The little girl in the red cloak who had taken her parents was Little Red Riding Hood!

Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.

and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning lack of depth it exposed in her character.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Just because the rose died on the vine, doesn't mean it lied to you when it was in bloom.

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

liar needs a good memory.

A life was no goddamn thing in the end, he thought. Bits and pieces of make-believe cobbled together to look halfways human, like some stick-and-rag doll meant to scare crows out of the garden. No goddamn thing at all.

Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light.

The serpent hated the light and knew he had no power to hurt it, except through its creatures.

Perhaps, after all, his anguish was so persuasive that it could eclipse the most real things and make them appear as shadows, and at the same time make shadows into an appearance of the real.

He recognized another factor that should not be underestimated: The serpent mesmerizes. Whenever it cannot seduce, it attempts to overwhelm. It is like a cobra projecting an image of its power in order to paralyze its victim with fear, disabling its defenses without a struggle, before devouring it. In the victim's eyes the threat grows so large that it becomes everything and appears to be irresistible. So too Satan desires that we think him omnipotent and omniscient.