logo

Quotes About Deception

Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed. Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.
~ Pam Jenoff
If you think you're going to play an angel you're greatly mistaken,
~ Unknown
Laura hated to lie, but she was pretty sure she'd hate prison more.
~ Pamela Clare
Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.
~ Pamela Clare
So easily she broke her word. The fire did not cower down nor the wind rise; her heart beat on quietly. Maybe it was more like a disease than an injury: the seed was sown but not yet sprouted. Perjury, shapeshifting: which was more mortal?
~ Pamela Dean
It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?
~ Pamela Dean
A Poem for a Trick Roses are red, Violets are blue Dumb ass nigguh I was never in love with U I peeped your game from the start That's why I never let you inside my heart couldn't let you tear it apart dumb bitch easy trick you made the mistake when you fell in love Then you had nerves to go around behind my back callin' me a trick While I went around your small dick Roses are red Violets are blue Dumb punk ass nigguh I used U
~ Unknown
A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
~ Pamela Meyer
I really thought that maybe Eli was Mr. Right. I can't understand how he got to be so Mr. Wrong.
~ Unknown
It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
clanking against the side of a stainless steel pot—signaled that her mother was busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Easing the door shut, Brianna leaned against it and closed her eyes. To pull this off, Brianna couldn't just act calm, she had to be calm. Otherwise, her mother would surely notice. But at only thirteen, she'd become pretty good at finding ways around her mother's
~ Unknown
Diceive the wicked, and Destroy them without Mercy.
~ Panchatantra
Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or the enjoyment of private property. For socialized human beings were prone to deceive and to exploit others while pretending to be public-spirited.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
eis a verdade: ninguém mente inteiramente ao mentir.
~ Unknown
Le romancier est le seul menteur qui ne tait pas le fait qu'il ment.
~ Unknown
You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.
~ Pat Barker
Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!
~ Pat Cadigan
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well.
~ Patricia Briggs
My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
~ Patricia Briggs
I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
~ Patricia Briggs
If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?
~ Patricia Briggs
People who say that vampires don't care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.
~ Patricia Briggs