Quotes About Deception

It's easy to lie to people you're leaving.

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

Geordie Karp hurt people and manipulated them because they weren't real to him. He acted as if he were human, but he was a monster.

It shines and it gleams, but is not what it seems.

Hild used a trick she had learnt from Gwladus, and studied her mother through half-closed eyes while she lowered her head to her apparent task. Breguswith was smiling to herself.

The loft was as I remembered-rich carpet, polished floors, and stark brick support pillars all brilliantly lit, even with no one at home-only now whenever I looked I saw that unfeeling mind at work, controlling, manipulating, hiding.

There was no wind in the hall, no fly to land on Gwenhwyfar's hand and tell Peretur all she needed-and she could read nothing in the queen's carefully judged smile.

You couldn't see her good points for her bad. Ah, now your face is closing up. I haven't seen that face in a while. No doubt you're thinking, He doesn't know the half of it and I'm not going to ruin his image of his fiancée by telling him. Tell me, did she try to seduce you? Yes, I thought so. She tried it with all my other friends who didn't like her." "I-" "Oh, I know, you turned her down.

How did Begu always make simple things seem so slippery?

Her smile was the kind of smile Hild had imagined on the water sprite's face as she pulled her down and drowned her.

This was how it would be for her, she realised when Edwin king decided he no longer needed a seer. She would stand, plump and fed and brushed like a sacrificial cow, with gilded horns and a ribbon around her neck, too stupid to know she was being led to slaughter.

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its propositions into norms, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

Het volkse verwarren met het democratische is de strategie van de democraat.

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

There are words for deceiving others, like "rational." And others, like "dialectic," for deceiving oneself.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

Order is a deception. But disorder is not a solution.

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

Primitive man transforms objects into subjects; modern man transforms subjects into objects. We can suppose that the former deceives himself, but we know with certainty that the latter is wrong.

A confused idea attracts a fool like a flame attracts an insect.

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its proposals into standards, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.