Quotes About Deception

18 Y estando a la mesa, y comiendo, dijo Jesús: En verdad les digo, que uno de ustedes, que come conmigo, me hará traición. 19 Comenzaron entonces ellos a contristarse, y a decirle uno después de otro: ¿Seré yo acaso, Señor? 20 El les respondió: Es uno de los doce, uno que mete conmigo la mano o moja en un mismo plato.

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

It's not that people change. People don't change. They merely hide things from you, and lie.

He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

When the words are suspicious, go after them, insist they tell us what they mean. Go after the meaning of the words. And if the speakers say they are the kind who call things as they see them, that they don't mince words, and call a spade a spade if not a bloody shovel, go after them even harder. They're often the worst liars of the lot.

When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

Betrayals start that way, with lies hidden in the shadows of silence.

Beware the hospitality of the sociopath.

At least Barrera didn't stick the envelope into her panties.

He recalls an old dicho— When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

If you let people believe that you're weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you'll do, you'll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you'll do, you'll do for the ones you love most.

mirrors reveal so little

He prays at the altar of dead false gods. Tries to hold up an image of what he thinks used to be but in fact didn't exist except maybe in the movies. The fuckin' guy wants so bad to be something that never was, even the ghost image of which is now fading into black.

Over my forty-year career as a defense attorney, I regularly came into contact with people who lied, cheated, and tried to bend the system so that they would come out on top. Most of them worked for the government. —OSCAR GOODMAN, BEING OSCAR

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

Any fool can cry wolf; to cry sheep is inspired, the work of a subtle, contradancing mind.

The math is not the territory.

A glimpse of an eye is, for purposes of triggering the animate-monitoring system, a glimpse of the beast peering through that eye.