Quotes About Deception

My best friend, a liar. My society brothers, my lover, and now my best friend. Any second now, my parents would call and tell me they were actually space aliens. Or European royalty. Or Republicans.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?

somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

I think people put on a show that they're good," I said. "Maybe they even start to, like, believe it themselves. But people are really... not evil, exactly, but they just care about themselves. They don't really care about who they step on. They just pretend like they do. You can't trust them. You really can't trust anyone.

Well, a marriage can look healthy on the outside and be loaded with problems inside.

I couldn't believe Nonnie was telling me to go. Pushing me to go. And as I threw my underwear and one of Nonnie's old dresses and my transistor radio into the bag, I wondered if they was in on it together, all three of them. Nurse Ann and Mrs. Forrester and Nonnie. But I had to pick one person to trust, and I guessed that was going to have to be the lady who took me to the beach and told Mary Ella the truth and cared enough to ask me questions about my daddy.

felt the depth of my deception. What had happened to my self-respect? My integrity?

Loyalty is a virtue everyone admires, especially the disloyal

For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend.

And I'll wager you thought him the handsomest thing that ever you saw in your life." "I did. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I'd be very glad to admire him. But in life he's an arrogant pig, and I didn't care for him at all. 'Mind who you look at, wench.' Foo!

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

My dear, the world is filled with brilliant, smiling monsters. I'm one who like to show his teeth.

Wyatt. He cheated

I'd go to my grave wearing lies like another layer of skin.

They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.

Lies are unattended truths

The Orphan Master's Son

The bad scorn the good . . . and the crooked despise the straight." ~Greville

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

He heard the thrill in her voice, he saw her earnest face, he saw her clear true eyes, he saw the quickened bosom that would have joyfully thrown itself before him to receive a mortal wound directed at his breast, with the dying cry, 'I love him!' and the remotest suspicion of the truth never dawned upon his mind.

Durante mi adolescencia, e incluso mucho después, esta situación familiar algo "turbia" me daba vergüenza: mentía sobre la edad de mi abuela y de mi madre para que no pudieran calcular que mi madre había nacido cuando la suya contaba con sólo diecisiete años;

Los que ponen los ojos en el sol, cuanto más lo miran más se ciegan, y así, cuanto yo más contemplo tu hermosura, más ciego tengo el sentido.