Quotes About Deception

During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councilors, councilors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows and kings who looked like thieves. But Stregobor always looked as, according to every rule and notion, a wizard should look.

He turned his head and caught the queen's venomously green glance.

Eu havia aprendido que confiar naqueles que pareciam inocentes só levava a corações partidos e devastação. Os monstros podiam exibir sorrisos amigáveis e, ao mesmo tempo, exalar a alma podre do Diabo nas fendas mais escuras de si mesmos.

And they dare say that we, humans, invented all the dirty tricks. On the other hand…' 'Hem, hem?' coughed Ori Reuven, surprised by his boss's sudden – and then continuing – silence. 'On the other hand, they may have finally begun to learn from us,' said the spy coldly, looking down at the denunciations, interrogation reports and death sentences.

Nulla è come sembra.» «Un'affermazione ineccepibile. Che ci conduce inesorabilmente alla conclusione che noi, Ciri, non sappiamo nulla l'uno dell'altra. Conosciamo solo le apparenze e quelle ingannano.»

The result was pseudo-pretty women with the angry and cold eyes of ugly girls. Girls who couldn't forget their ugliness had been covered by the mask of magic only for the prestige of their profession.

for verily I do say to you that those magicians are like whitened graves, beautiful on the outside but full of putrefaction and rotten bones on the inside!

Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

Conozco algo la política, sé que tiene dos fines alternativos: uno es el entendimiento, el otro el conflicto. El entendimiento se alcanza cuando uno de los bandos finge que se traga las trolas que le cuenta el otro bando.

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?

I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

zestawia? katastrof? samolotu z dwudziestoma tysi?cami ludzi zabitych strza?em w ty? g?owy i zakopanych w bezimiennych do?ach?! To jest kolosalny przekr?t moralny. Tam nie by?o ?adnego bohaterstwa, nie by?o ?adnej ofiary. Po prostu zgin?li urz?dnicy.

The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

You see, the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

In the long run, it is much easier to undo the policies of crooked leadership than to restore common sense and wisdom to a deceived population willing to elect such a leader in the first place. Any country can survive having chosen a fool as their leader. But history has shown time and again that a nation of fools is surely doomed.

9. How can we tell if a politician is telling the truth? Is there a way to know for sure? You may remember the old joke: "How do you know if a politician is lying? If he's moving his lips." It's not that funny anymore, is it? Obviously, there is no certain way to know at the moment something is said. But remember this: past performance serves to reveal future behavior. A person who has exhibited a pattern of lying is a liar.

On the top deck, it is easy to believe what one sees is the same throughout the ship. But if one of the officers has slipped below and drilled a hole in the hull, smooth sailing is only an illusion.

By the way, have you ever noticed that if any one of us lies to them, it is a felony? But if any one of them lies to us, it is considered politics.

In almost everything in his life, he's relentlessly pursuing the question of how the common people are deceived, and constantly thinking of creative and humorous ways to make them realize it.

Every idol makes two simple and extravagant promises. "You shall not surely die." "You shall be like God.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.