Quotes About Deception

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.

patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord.

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' VOLTAIRE

You can't fool the Angry Ones, Telamon. You can't fool your Ancestors, either. Your father knows what you did. - Hylas

I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.

Two of us could play the lying game.

Men don't have no kind of sense when they cheatin'. Seem like they want to get caught.

The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

When a killer tries to change something on a crime scene deliberately to throw the detectives off track, it is called staging. This killer was so good at staging that he should have been awarded an Oscar for his performance.

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

Soy la vida, la Manzana-Rosa del Ave del Paraíso; soy la mentira de todas las cosas reales, la realidad de todas las ficciones!

La imagen de la Virgen se borró en la sombra y por el suelo rodaron dos cuerpos hechos una trenza de ajos.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

All is not gold that glitters.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.