Quotes About Deception

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

How very disappointing truth is sometimes.

The power of the lie, Daniel said. Always seductive to the powerless.

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to any more. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful. I

She knew it was supposed to happen like that, that although these photographs were a signal to the eyes about something really happening, the more she looked at them the less she felt or thought. The more pictures she saw, the less they meant something that had happened to real people and the more it became possible to pile real people up like that again anywhere you wanted and have your picture taken standing smiling behind them.

The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoarding for what they are knows it.

The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoardings for what they are knows it.

It's as if that map they gave us is nothing to do with the actual experience of being here, she said.

That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.

the number-one rule in making shit up: Make it so unbelievable that people have to believe it.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all

There was... her capacity to believe. There was as well her capacity to be deceived, since you can't have one without the other...

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

If you remember better times you know they were lies, because they led to this

Distortion's all that I know.

This clearing is full of false lights, flickers that stop when you look.

I have the face of a man who drinks blood, of a woman of guile and deception; of an arrogant beggar who doesn't owe you a thing.

though you seem so emotional you have no feeling

Those who betray others, lie and deceive, deserve each other.

Love is...' he paused and then laughed. 'Love is like an armchair cover. It hides a multitude of sins. It's washable and may well have a riot of roses and auriculas splashed over it, but underneath everything is all ripped up.