Quotes About Deception

I don't believe in conspiracies. Guys will say anything to get laid.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON

Ray looks over to see what Carlos is talking about. He has good control of his face. He's done this before. Ray never looks shocked, but the momentary spike in his heartbeat and his pupils dilating tell me all I need to know.

Exactly. I'm the man who makes things happy behind the scenes, but no one knows. I'm Dr. Mabuse." "That's great. Just remember: Dr. Mabuse ended up in the nuthouse." Kasabian makes a face. "Always with the negative waves, Moriarty." I shake my head. "You aren't Donald Sutherland." "And you aren't Clint Eastwood, so just hold the damn book while I finish.

Juliette Stray is a bleach-blond Mamie Van Doren knockoff. She kisses cheeks left and right as she moves through the crowd. A big smile masks someone trying to look way too nice for it to be anything but protective coloring—like the pretty stripes on a coral snake. Better keep an eye on her. If things go bad, she'll be the one who puts the knife in.

I look at her bandaged hands. "You all right?" "Just a couple of blisters. Some asshole convinced me to run through a furnace." "He sounds shady. As your lawyer, I advise you to avoid him in the future." "It's my fondest dream.

Whatever happened to Michael?" "Oh, I killed him." "Thank you. What a complete dick." "He really was, wasn't he?" "The worst.

I'm fine. Really," I lie.

I guess with Heaven closed to mortals, it's been on my mind. Poor slobs living so-called good lives, praying for Heaven and ending up eyeball-deep in shit with all the other losers." "It sounds like you actually feel sorry for the righteous." "Fuck the righteous. I just don't like con jobs. You angels built Heaven and Hell, but you don't want kids playing on your lawns, so you locked everybody out.

Next you'll tell me that Mickey Mouse is just a guy in a costume.

The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory.

The closer I get, the shittier Abbot looks. His hair is long and he seems weak and frail. He was never a big guy and it looks like he lost twenty pounds and his surgical mask droops on his face. With his bony cheekbones, when he smiles he looks like a well-dressed corpse.

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

What . . . what did you do to Marv?' 'He's all right.' Her eyes lowered to Roy's knife hand. He glanced down. His hand was shiny red. 'So I lied,' he said. 'God in heaven! O merciful God!

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104

Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can't change

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.

I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig. ~Zeke

To the thief, everyone's a crook. To the liar, everyone's a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.

Beware the stranger offering gifts, as true for man as it is for fish