Quotes About Deception

Anna stabbed her with the dagger she'd concealed in Tom's jacket. Under the ribs and through the heart--just like her favorite forensic TV show had taught her.

Sometimes the most interesting part of the conversation with someone who can't lie is the questions they don't answer.

He knows about sacrificing himself for the good of the whole.That's what soldiers do.It's not the torture he can't forgive me for. Nor deceiving him about his people. It's because I put you in harm's way he is so angry" Then she said, very calmly, "If I could kill you, I would" - Mrsilia

Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.

Her lips twisted. "I don't like you," she told me, but there was a lie in her voice, and she stopped talking, looking almost surprised.

He is very good at blending in, my father-in-law. But don't mistake him for anything but a ruthless bastard.

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? But curiosity is very nearly my besetting sin.

Bonarata was charming, but I couldn't forget or forgive him for

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

What blinds people the most to controlling behavior is the belief that the person who consistently defines them truly loves them.

Verbal abuse: Words that attack or injure, that cause one to believe the false, or that speak falsely of one.

Abusive statements are lies about you which are told to you. They violate your boundaries. The abuser in effect invades your mind, makes up a "story" about your motives, and then tells it to you. No human being has the right to do that to another.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

She had thought because he loved her body that he cherished it. But now she saw that he took her body to be a dream of his own. It gave him pleasure, it gave him work, it gave him comfort, and profit. It was even more completely his body than his own, since if he needed to, he could discard it. Nothing she had imagined about who she was to him was true. At that moment, she became his widow.

Bad men you want to kiss are the worst; he had only to use the right tone of voice and you offered your throat to the knife.

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugationthe last arguments to which kings resort.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

I smell a rat.