Quotes About Deception

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

I thought it was a person,' she said, ignoring my question. 'I thought it was a person. I thought it was.

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

She had a nice laugh, even as she was using it as a weapon against him.

Be', dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola. Così va il mondo. Vedi una cosa per un'altra. Uccelli-foglie. Pipistrelli-uccelli. Ombre fatte di luci. Rumori accidentali che sembrano più significativi. È sempre così, dovunque vai.

So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it.

This false return, this corrupted reunion. This end of everything.

Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When

That placing trust in a word like border had been a mistake, a trap. A slow unraveling of terms unrecognized until too late.

Alcohol made it hard to tell a demon from a monster.

Never be tricked by the small print! It's right there in front of you, right there in front of you, and you can't even see it and then suddenly it makes you notice it! And I tell you, once you've seen it it's got you!

Many of our clients engaged in "greenwashing": co-opting environmental causes to project an image of being sustainable.

Jovial" had always been a pretext - the kind of hearty banter that covered up greater and lesser crimes.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.

He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all the techniques, the facility for it. That part if you'll excuse the expression, was in his blood. But he never really had the heart for it.

Romance," said Antony. "A con so crazy that by the time the bullet's in the chamber, you don't know if you've taken someone or you've been taken.

As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by certain obstacles. The good con artist elicits the assistance of those who mean to stand in the way of one's attainment by appealing to their vanity, pride, jealousy, ignorance, or fear. One must first throw into a pile the expected rules of engagement, morality, society, and thought, set them on fire, and then proceed. Think big, have confidence.

Simplicity and subtlety make for the best con. A distraction should lead the mark's attention upward, either toward the sky or to some better vision of himself. Color signals danger. Try to appear to have as many eyes as possible.