Quotes About Deception

They took us all to Arcata to the church there. Then they made us all separate. They said we were going to have new Christian American families. They said…they said you were all dead. I believed them at first, and I didn't know what to do. But then I saw how they would lie whenever they felt like it. They would say things about us and about Acorn that were nothing but lies. Then I didn't know what to believe.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

They pretend they're keeping everyone out, when in fact they're locked in.

Political motivations, though rare, occasionally did raise their heads, more so since 2016, and it brought out the worst in people. Black was white, and patriotism was treachery. Some had the gift of coloring the truth just enough to make it look like a lie, and to carefully prune a lie until it passed the smell test and became accepted truth, not just to the intended audience, but also eventually to the liar himself.

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero!

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!ç

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!

?wiat si? sko?czy?, cho? zatrzyma? pozory trwania. Tak wygl?da prawdziwy koniec.

Dizzy," I said, "it's Animals taking revenge on people." Dizzy always believes me, but this time he wasn't listening.

She had tried to lose Effie. Had succeeded for a while, too, during the height of her social success in Milhampton. But Effie hadn't stayed lost. Effie was the sort of woman whom you can grind your heel on the dirt and it won't kill her loyalty. Like a worm. Cut her feelings of friendship for you in two, and the parts will still wriggle

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Subtlety may deceive you; intedrity never will.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.