Quotes About Deception

They offer a wrist-grasp of peace, but that is only to hold you close, by the sword-arm,' he told us, sucking ale off the wet end of his hair. 'The dagger is in the other.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The tactics used by the English in their warfare with the Indians crossed the foggy dividing line between strategic deception and outright immorality.

The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework of the worldwide class struggle.

The storyteller leads us into expectation, makes us think we understand, then cracks open reality

La escena no trata de lo que parece tratar en la escena. Trata de otra cosa.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Money is really made up. It is only because of the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses that this house of cards stands. He talked

It's just like the picture of a donkey dragging a cart with its owner dangling a carrot just in front of its nose. The donkey's owner may be going where he wants to, but the donkey is chasing an illusion. Tomorrow there will only be another carrot for the donkey.

It blinds the person to what is really going on. It causes them to miss major opportunities for much more significant growth of their money.

I'm done playing Brokeback Riverdale with you.

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

He became an unimaginative woman's creation. Delilah had shorn his locks and assured him he looked much neater and cooler without them. He gave her his soul, and she transformed it into a cabbage.

But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.

It is problematic because, taken together, the whole--composed of lies and truth--forms a truth of its own.

And when I looked up and saw you as you were, in no gaudy robes and bearing no solemn goblet - suddenly I had hope.' 'I did not see you looking,' said Mirasol. 'I did no want you to see,' said the Master.'And I looked away quickly, because I knew the hope was false. I knew - I think I knew - that it was not really about hope, it was about looking at you. And so I looked at Horuld, and at his sword, and reminded myself that they were about to kill me.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.