Quotes About Deception

Have we forgotten that what we tolerate, we empower? Silence is communication! Silence communicates agreement and grants permission. We enable deception when we refuse to confront the lies. Silence is not an option!

It's our responsibility to take an uncompromising stance on God's Word and to serve as the restraining force that impedes deception's forward progress in society so it cannot take hold and entrench itself in people's minds as "just the way things are.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

Fake niggas always caught up in the realest shit, Mama always told me "watch who you be dealin with" snake bitches can't get wrapped up in your feelings with

Not everything is as it seems.

Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown.

Through the window the sun was shining like a beacon, nearly blinding her just as her parents lies had.

Something was going on here, something that wasn't right. It was almost like the killer was lobbing grenades at her with clues pointing to different suspects. Was that part of his game?

Pinto hove into sight, his drab, insignificant exterior concealing a drab, insignificant soul.

Fake people can be silenced with truth.

Love is often described as a fruit you can just reach out with your hand and pluck. However, one should beware, that although glowing in color, the fruit is often tainted or rotten.

People would lie less if they could only remember how difficult it is to live with the lie. There is one exception – narcissistic people live in a lie and therefore have no conscious of guilt regarding the consequences of their dishonest demeanor.

Silence is often the ultimate and most evident lie.

Stories don't have points. They're lies for keeping the truth in. They're sort of rounded, not pointy at all.

It is no secret that Desi was cheating on Lucy, and that he shared with Bill Frawley a fondness for alcohol.

to gain attention, wear a lightly but attractively colored chiffon scarf; if you wish to appear as if you weigh less, wear a size larger than your actual one.

Compliments are the fool's gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and worthless.

I used to think that English-speaking who conveniently look, dress, and act human only turned up in lazy science fiction. But as Carly and Frampton dematerialized, I became grimly aware of how well they'd also fit into a psychotic hallucination.

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

Robin had presented him with a fake degree from a university in Athens where the puck had an old acquaintance who still got a kick out of teaching, despite hemlock rumors to the contrary.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.