Quotes About Deception

The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them.

what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.

There are worse things than telling a lie.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

People are fakers--that's all we do. Can you think of anything you do that's not done for the precise reason of pretending to be something you're afraid you're not?

Think of denial as an acronym for Don't Even Notice I Am Lying

You might even say their bark is as bad as their bite.

Sometimes is pays to be fast and sneaky instead of just a pile of muscles," she said laughing. "And you make such a satisfying thump when you go down.

Once upon a time there was a king and queen who thought they were sneaky.

That's the trouble with lies. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight.

Couples were always keen to return to the task of trying to destroy their lifelong partners while pretending to have their best interests at heart.

How easily I can be betrayed by those who mean me no harm.

He looked such an inoffensive chap, but then so did most of the men who turned up in front of her bench, guilty of the most brutal abuse.

People, even those closest to you, are surprising...Nobody is everything they seem.

The eyes of a man betrayed his heart.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue" (PSALM 120:2 KJV).

These people…flatter others to get favors in return. JUDE 1:16 NLT

Then Delilah pouted, "How can you say you love me when you don't confide in me? You've made fun of me three times now, and you still haven't told me what makes you so strong!" JUDGES 16:15 NLT

One day during an event in which the Philistines were making sport of him, he stood between two temple pillars, prayed for one last infusion of supernatural strength, and literally brought the house down (see JUDGES 16). The collapsing structure killed him and more than 3000 spectators and government officials. This was the tragic end of a strong man who was weakened by a manipulative woman. Manipulation can destroy not only a relationship but also a person's life.

He smiled, a lazy curve of full lips that reminded her keenly of how those sensual lips had felt moving against hers. He leaned toward her, his voice meant for her ears alone. "Because your family and guests would be quite distressed to discover you had deceived them into believing you were married.

What about the main door over that way?" "Don't try it. That one only looks like a door." "What is it, then?" asked Ari, as the sliding panel snicked shut again behind them. "A burglar alarm," said Jessan. "Or so your sister tells me. You wake up when the burglar starts screaming.

It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.

In reality we are present, we can do absolutely nothing to alter that. But we can fantasise that we are somewhere else. In fact we have evolved such ingenious devices to delude ourselves that we are absent that it is extremely difficult to switch them off.