logo

Quotes About Deception

It's also been my experience that the people you would least expect of guile and subterfuge are the most adept at hiding their true nature—at least for a while. But it almost always surfaces sooner or later, sometimes violently.
~ Amanda Stevens
I'd be a fool to trust him completely. He was who he was, after all. A scorpion with a treacherous nature." Excerpt From: The Sinner
~ Amanda Stevens
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
~ Amber Benson
Bruce watched her nose sniff at the side of the friend's head, her tongue like a worm, searching for a way in.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy
~ Ambrose Bierce
HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises
~ Ambrose Bierce
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~ Amelia Barr
O Love! what cruelties are done in thy name! We think of thee as coming with a rose, and a song, and a smile.
~ AMELIA E. BARR
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo
~ American Indian Proverb
What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!
~ Amin Maalouf
Dunya, Tanri'nun aldatilabilecegini ve ellerinin temiz kalmasi icin oldurmemekle calmamanin yeterli olacagini dusunen acinasi insanlarla dolu. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta
~ Amin Maalouf
Hay mentiras de las que tienen más culpa los oídos que la boca.
~ Amin Maalouf
The sole purpose of terms such as spirit and immortal soul was to allow unscrupulous and corrupt clergymen to frighten men and subject them to their will.
~ Amir Alexander
If we live all our lives under lies, it becomes difficult to see anything if it does not have anything to do with these lies. If it is, for example, true or, say, honest.
~ Amiri Baraka
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.
~ Amos Oz
I'm not my brother's keeper" is the lie infecting our streets and our neighborhoods (Genesis 4:9). This lie alienates us from God and one another.
~ Amos Smith
The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.
~ Amos Tutuola
Truths are failed to sell in the market but lies are purchased with high price without pricing it.
~ Amos Tutuola
The rope of the truth is thin but there is nobody who can cut it; the rope of lie is thick as a large pillar but it can be cut easily into a thousand pieces.
~ Amos Tutuola