Quotes About Deception

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. JEAN GENET, PRISONER OF LOVE

Betrayal is the sense of being harmed by the intentional actions or omissions of a trusted person.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.

All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

Mary had the same face as ma used to have sitting staring into the ashes it was funny that face it slowly grew over the other one until one day you looked and the person you knew was gone. And instead there was a half-ghost sitting there who had only one thing to say: All the beautiful things of this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

Indeed, thought will go on fooling them into the belief that more of the same will ultimately become something new.

Life was so full of irony that he found himself asking if it was nothing more than a trick played on humanity by a Grand Illusionist with a black sense of humour.

Nothing improper was occurring, on the surface, but she hadn't said a word about her new friend to Max; and by consistently failing to mention and event of significance in her day she was practising a form of duplicity.

Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

After he killed the farmer's daughter, said the monster, the prince lay down next to her and returned to sleep. When he awoke, he acted out a pantomime should anyone be watching. But also, it may surprise you to learn, for himself. The monster's branches creaked. Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Here is the hardest hit of all, O'Malley," Harry said. "Here is the very worst thing I can do to you." He held out his hand, as if asking for a handshake. He was asking for a handshake. Conor responded almost automatically, putting out his own hand and shaking Harry's before he even thought about what he was doing. They shook hands like two businessmen at the end of a meeting. "Goodbye, O'Malley," Harry said, looking into Conor's eyes. "I no longer see you.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.

Even though it walked and talked, even though it was bigger than his house and could swallow him in one bite, the monster was still, at the end of the day, just a yew tree.

The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.

The devil tells the best stories.

At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing