Quotes About Deception

Among the haunts of humankind, hard-featured men, or with proud, angry looks, or cold, staid gait, or false and hollow smiles, or the dull sneer of self-loved ignorance, or other such foul masks, with which ill thoughts hide that fair being whom we spirits call man.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak.

beware, whilst you assume the softness of the dove, to forget not the cunning of the serpent.

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

George Orwell has written that "political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."1

Spirits are generally invisible, and therefore not easily detected. They are crafty and sly in their approach.

The enemy. As long as we never expose what he is doing, he will work in the darkness.

While some say a total shutdown of religions and personal freedoms could never occur in the United States, just remember, the Russian Tzars never realized the impact of the Communist revolution until they were removed. The German people were deceived into thinking Hitler would be a positive leader. In our nation, oppressive and freedom-killing legislation would be the method used to chain targeted groups to the pillar of silence and irrelevance.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

I'm not actually going to blow you out of the airlock Roberts. I just need you in a quiet place where you won't blurt out something stupid at the wrong time near the wrong watch.

You gotta respect a girl who realizes that romantic relationships are built on lies and goes to town with it!

Love gets everything all screwed up. It's one of those lies that ruin the world.

Normalcy was the byword, even when it was a lie.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

Not to be taken in is something Père Goriot as a whole teaches: it's about learning to see the world as it is, not as it claims to be.

Al igual que la traducción, la transcripción es una forma de traición.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

Today, citizens were at once less trusting and more credulous. Many had swallowed lies of vast proportion.

Lying was his brand. He was too bold to bother with accuracy and too visionary to be held accountable in small matters. Lies served as virtue signaling—the virtue of those who disdain experts, science, stability, and convention.

Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.