Quotes About Deception

Will you miss him Holly?" he asked suddenly. [...] "No," she said. "I will not miss him." But her eyes told the real story.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time…

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

Nee,' zei ze, 'ik zal hem niet missen.' Maar haar ogen vertelden een heel ander verhaal.

That bloody guide lies all the time. It's more lies than truth.' Ford spouted the standard line: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred per cent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable

Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons.

He glanced up sharply when Holly entered through the pneumatic double doors. "Anybody see you come in here?" Holly thought about it. "The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB." Foaly frowned. "The EIB?" "Everyone in the building." Holly smirked.

My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.

Ja, dat begrijpen we,' zei Artemis. 'Hoe lang duurt het voor je de betovering geformuleerd hebt?' Nr. 1 beet even op zijn lip. 'Ongeveer net zo lang als jullie tweeën nodig hebben om jullie kleren uit te trekken.' 'Gadver,' zei Artemis, die zich bijna verslikte van verbazing. 'D'Arvit,' vloekte Holly.

Opal Koboi does not make plans; she writes operas.

Immer zwei Schritte voraus, unser Master Artemis. Die Leute sagten, er sei ganz aus dem alten Holz geschnitzt. Doch sie irrten sich. Master Artemis war aus nagelneuem Holz, von einer Sorte, die noch keiner gesehen hatte.

Really, Commander. Holly—Captain Short is only here because I tricked her.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.

Cómo se llama a los que hacen caso de cualquier apariencia? — Locos

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

So when someone assents to a false proposition, be sure that they did not want to give their assent, since, as Plato says, 'Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.'47 [5] They simply mistook for true something false.

Whenever someone helps or hinders you, or praises or criticizes you, remember that they see you only through the lens of their own impressions. If they act or speak from a warped perspective, they hurt themselves—not you. For if someone mistakes truth for falsehood, the truth is not harmed, but only the person deceived. Keeping this in mind, gently turn away any insult or injury. "It seems right to them, though they are mistaken.

It is a measure of the effort we are prepared to expend to guard against deception when accuracy is at a premium.

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

The indispensability of play-acting in the grim business of dying and killing is particularly evident in the case of armies. Their uniforms, flags, emblems, parades, music, and elaborate etiquette and ritual are designed to separate the soldier from his flesh-and-blood self and mask the overwhelming reality of life and death.