Quotes About Deception

There wasn't anything more, and the one good thing that was mine wasn't mine after all.

Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." "It is a true story," the monster said. "Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Just because the devil gave them the gift of speech doesn't mean you're talking to anything more than a mostly undomesticated predator.

And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.

Sometimes the rumour of an army is just as effective as the army itself.

Noise ain't truth,

So the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

One night a whole storehouse of wheat was taken, so completely and successfully it's obvious now there's people in the town and the army who've been helping 'em. Which is bad news for the town and the army.

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

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all. ... the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

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

The best liar is the one who believes her lie is true.

Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

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...We are too eager to build devils. Is it only a matter of time before we are at war again?

They "duped the FDA, saying OxyContin lasted twelve hours," Moore said. "They lied about the addictive properties. And they did all this to grow the opioid market, to make it okay to jump in the water. Then some of these other companies, they saw that the water was warm. And they said, 'Okay, we can jump in, too.

Roche hadn't just blithely assumed that the powerful drugs it was about to introduce to the public would be safe: the company had deliberately obfuscated evidence to the contrary. In

The Sacklers have done a pretty good job of sucking the life out of Purdue," she said. "Year after year, month after month, they were draining hundreds of millions of dollars." All that was left at this point, she said, was "essentially a shell.

by the time Marietta learned that Arthur Sackler, the man she had been seeing, already had a wife and two children, Arthur treated it as a mere detail, a minor technicality that should not slow the two of them down.

The PR man dissembled. But to anyone who was paying attention, the answer was clear: by buying all those reprints, Pfizer was bribing Henry Welch.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.