Quotes About Deception

She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can't believe her, even if I could believe her.

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.

Selling something only to steal it back to sell again is not only dishonest, but highly profitable.

I've always felt that the best place to hide a body is in the trunk of a cop car, with a note affixed to the body that reads, I'm sorry.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

And what do the poets have to say about it? — They only lie!

The lies we tell ourselves. Comforting justifications, designed to try and fill the holes in us. I

Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.

I don't assume anything about people, and I sure don't trust 'em. Just when you think you know a guy, he turns out to be a liar, a fraud, or a backstabber.

observations. Therefore, the entire archbishop's residence, from the bedroom to the dining room, was bugged with listening devices. The communists were rather clumsy about it, pretending to show up as random technicians who needed to work on the phone lines or electrical system.

The Second World War did not begin with a gunshot or a bomb. It began with a feat of deception involving elements long familiar to Elizebeth Friedman— a code phrase, a radio station, and a murder . The men responsible were Nazis, and they belonged to the same part of the Nazi state that would soon attract Elizebeth's deep attention.

During the Second World War, an American woman figured out how to sweep the globe of undercover Nazis.

The director of the FBI had been boasting about catching spies he did not really catch. Elizebeth, who did catch them, bragged about her family.

The problem, as we've learned over time, is that the further away you are from the fruit, the lower it looks. Once you get up close, you see it's quite a bit higher than you thought. We assume that picking it will be easy only because we've never tried to do it before.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.

Lies beget lies," he said. "Until, one day, someone needs the truth." Palewski

But you're wrong about these pictures, you're wrong about this house, and you're wrong about Teddy. There is some seriously weird shit happening right under your nose and you're living in denial!

scanning the selection of movies, but suddenly they all seem fake and horrible and awful—full of false promises and bullshit happy endings.

People in South Philly don't spend a lot of time talking about French royalty. Still, I don't want to look like an idiot, so I shovel on more lies.

Freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.