Quotes About Deception

He pasado la mayor parte de mi vida tratando de olvidar cosas que resultaron no ser verdad.

Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.

without preamble.

A corruption of intentions.

Oh, God, she loathed them all! Mindless, stupid men. Playing with the lives of other men, knowing so little, thinking they knew so much.

Relax, Stranger. Things are not as they seem.

I should of known he was married. I mean, nobody that young is THAT bald unless he's got a wife at home.

Those who had benefited from the false stories of Altaussee had been working behind the scenes to defeat the petition. Without

I thought you were my friend.

It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there.

Furthermore, as shown with neuroimaging, when contemplating mouthwash versus soap, those who had just spoken a lie activated parts of the sensorimotor cortex related to the mouth (i.e., the subjects were more aware of their mouths at the time); those who had written the lie activated the cortical regions mapping onto their hand.

Tous les hommes honnêtes sont dangereux. Seules, les canailles sont inoffensives... Parce que les canailles n'agissent que par intérêt, c'est-à-dire petitement.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you should know that material things lie. Supercars lie, houses lie, shiny stuff lie. Men lie, women lie. But remember this: it is IMPOSSIBLE for the eyes to lie.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses; it can move in all directions, and put on all the guises of truth. The truth, by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

For when we lie nowadays it is not so much out of weakness as out of a conviction that a man cannot prevail in life unless he is able to lie.

Once a human being is mistrusted, the plaimest signs of faithfulness will positively turn into signs of unfaithfulness. On the other hand, where there is trust, the most glaring evidence of unfaithfulmess will seem to be signs of misunderstood faithfulness, crying like a child that the grown-ups have locked out. Nothing could be interpreted on its own merits alone, one thing depended on the other, one had to trust or mistrust the whole of it, love it or take it for deceit and delusion.

I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.

Against firelight, he sees the face of the woman / Lean over, and the lips purse sweet as to bestow a kiss, but / This is not true, and the great glob of spit / Hangs there, glittering, before she lets it fall. The spit is what softens like silk the passage of steel / On the fine-grained stone. It whispers.

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away. I'm looking for the truth. And so it goes away. Puzzling.

Remember, all con men are nice people. If they were not being nice by telling you what you want to hear, you would not listen to them.

the love of money is the root of all evil.