Quotes About Deception

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

No man at the beginning of a relationship tells the woman the truth. Initially, he just wants to have fun.

If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth.

They usually did not fight what is known as a "war of attrition." Rather, they used deception, speed, fluidity of action, and strength against weakness. They used tactics that disoriented and confused—tactics that, in Boyd's words, caused the enemy "to unravel before the fight.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

When Mary Osmer later told us her story, her eyes glistened with guilt. To her, the stranger seemed friendly, sincere, very polite, and easy to talk to. He had a nice smile and didn't get upset when she told him she wouldn't go with him.

Food in our society is a chronic poverty need, not a life-threatening one. And when we respond to a chronic need as though it were a crisis, we can predict toxic results: dependency, deception, disempowerment.

By the time he had reached adolescence, he had become adept at manipulating people and getting them to do what he wanted. A few well-placed words in the right ears could be twice as damaging as an equal number of bullets, and much harder to trace back to their source.

Don't know. Like I said, she wouldn't say much. He was her Prince Charming." "Sounds more like the toad," Kins said. "That's an insult to toads.

was like trying to find an honest man in Congress.

The one consistent thing about psychopaths was their ego. They never imagined getting caught because they believed they were smarter than everyone.

You're fishing, Detective. Problem is you've got a line in the water, but you got no bait on your hook.

Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.

Houdini untied himself, Faz. That was the trick.

hers, then pretended to take a

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?

Each smiled and nodded courteously, and each knew the other lied.

They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief.

These fiends can take any form they will. That is, they can, by a magic charm or the like, fling a web of sorcery about their faces, as an actor dons a mask, so that they resemble anyone they wish to.

You low-down land-sharks," I roared. "You doped my grog!