Quotes About Deception

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

Aamulla kuningattarella oli vähän nuhaa, ja koska sovittuja tapaamisia ei ollut, hän sanoi olevansa ehkä vilustunut ja jäi vuoteeseen. Se ei ollut hänelle tyypillistä eikä myöskään totta, hän sanoi sen oikeastaan vains siksi että saisi jatkaa lukemista.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks, circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Unlike in simulations, reality bled.

A certain type—he knew them all too well from years of experience as a detective, he knew how they acted, how they spoke, how their minds worked. These were people who would do anything to win at what they saw as the game of life, who had no allegiance to anyone or anything beyond themselves, who were gifted liars, who could scheme their way into almost anyone's confidence, then betray them without hesitation.

Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Words. Empty words. Sometimes I hate words. Sometimes they fail human experience. Sometimes words are a way to avoid the truth.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, I'm a Liar, right there on the dust jacket.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

When it's done, only our enemies leave roses.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Fair enough, you have managed to successfully swindle me, and so I will never work for you again.

Or you can make it easy on yourself," Skulduggery said. "You can tell us where Abyssinia is.

I was Skulduggery Pleasant's partner," said Crepuscular. "And he left me to die.

A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.

He still didn't believe we could do it to him, and left with the assured insolence of a credit card presenting itself at the thin mouth of hell.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

If you approach any psychic with any sort of scepticism youll see through pretty much all of it unless they happen to get lucky.

Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin, the extraordinary father of modern conjuring, made the salient point that a magician is an actor playing the part of a magician. This is a very good description. However, an actor takes for granted how to create drama in every word, movement and look. The average magician is barely aware of its existence.

Some people might think I could play Russian Roulette safely with a blank bullet. Our armourer took us outside to demonstrate the damage a blank causes at close range.

Derren Victor Brown