Quotes About Deception

The fellows who write those lies ought to go out and hang themselves.

I bet there are other people behind it all who are making a profit out of the war - Detering

People who write the false things and cause a disrupt ought to be strung up. They're the real villains

I felt it, it excited me, and then it struck like a wave against the barrier reef—I knew she did not mean me at all; she meant someone else, some figure of her fantasy, Rolf or Rudolf; and perhaps she did not mean them either, perhaps they were just names thrown up from dark, subterranean streams, without roots or connections.

Re nu, k?di m?s esam! Baid?mies savu j?tu. Un, tikl?dz t?s saman?m, t? t?l?t dom?jam, ka esam kr?pnieki.

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best -- in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly. And

A woman who may report on a neighbor for disloyalty and jeopardize his life, even cause his death, takes her big kindly-looking dog in the Tiergarten for a walk. She talks to him and coddles him as she sits on a bench and he attends to the requirements of nature.

confidence men

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

We believe in the Führer's powers of divination. We know that anything which now seems to be going against us will turn out to be most fortunate for us in the end." Goebbels knew, of course

Her gayety seemed like jewels on a skull

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are, but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

was always trying to improve the appearance of the package, because he knew that the goods inside were rotten.

people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky.

Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress

The thirty-minute nap. When I heard a key in the door, I'd jump up, throw cold water on my face, smooth my clothes, pull the bedspread taut, stagger into the kitchen, and throw an onion in the oven. When my husband mentioned the chenille marks on my face, I'd lie and say, "It's bad skin.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.

The eminent biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy wrote in a masterful essay (1955) that evolution would soon have weeded man out if his cultural categories of space, time, causality, etc., were entirely deceptive.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Blood is thicker than water, The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies.