Quotes About Deception

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

?nanarak dinlememizi güçle?tiriyorlar. ?nsan her sözü ku?kuyla kar??l?yor art?k. Gerçekle dü? birbirine kar???yor; yalan?n nerede bitti?ini anlayam?yoruz. Tutunacak bir dal?m?z kalm?yor. Tutunam?yoruz.

Mesele ç?kmas?n diye elinizden geleni yap?yorsunuz!??te bu ikiyüzlülü?ünüze dayanam?yorum!

Kitap okumakla, manav?n beni aldatmas?na engel olam?yorum bir türlü. Manava inanmad???m halde beni aldat?yor namussuz.

Günahlar?m?n a??rl???na dayanam?yorum Olric. Neden beni uyarmad?n? Buna hakk?m yoktu efendimiz. Öyle güzel gürlüyordunuz ki. Size kap?lmamaya imkan yoktu. Çevrenizdeki bütün sahtelikleri öyle güzel ayd?nlat?yordunuz ki. Bir daha göremeyecekler sizin gibi bir devi efendimiz. Onlar?n küçük ya?ant?lar?n?n içinde ben de küçülmedim mi Olric?

Kitap okumakla, manav?n beni aldatmas?na engel olam?yorum bir türlü. Manava inanmad???m halde beni aldat?yor namussuz. Ya inand???m dostlar?n beni aldatmas?n? önlemek: büsbütün imkâns?z bu.

sizin dünyan?zda, o dünyay? bizlerin san?p ya?arken, hepinize hayrand?k.

Hani yar?nlar güzel olurmu? diyorlard? Olric? Bu ya?ad???m?z gün de dünün yar?n'? de?il mi? -Kand?r?yorlar efendim, kand?r?yorlar.

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

Si infâmes que soient les canailles, elles ne le sont jamais autant que les honnêtes gens.

when one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than know just how easy it is to hurt me.

I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

No one is who we think they are," I said. "That's what we get for not being telepathic.

I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should. And no doubt the new picture ballots on the nets will give Jarret an even greater advantage.

Lilith watched them enviously. They didn't lie often to humans because their sensory language had left them with no habit of lying—only of withholding information, refusing contact. Humans, on the other hand, lied easily and often. They could not trust one another. They could not trust one of their own who seemed too close to aliens, who stripped off her clothing and lay down on the ground to help her jailer.

Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

Jail for Bankole could have meant being sold into a period of hard, unpaid labor—slavery. Perhaps if he had been younger, the deputies might have taken his money and arrested him anyway on some trumped-up charge. I had begged him not to go, not to trust any police or government official. It seemed to me such people were no better than gangs with their robbing and slaving.

To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we've said it And at last to embrace it Because we've defended it And because we cannot admit That we've embraced and defended An obvious lie.