Quotes About Deception

Es una mujer de buen corazón enamorada de un oportunista lo ama a pesar de sus modales perversos que ella no entiende. Mujer de buen corazón

The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.

You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.

We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to. I think I'll stick with reality, I said, handing Cassidy back her phone. She stared at it, and then me, disappointed. I'd think you of all people would want to escape. Imaginary prisoners are still prisoners.

when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I'm thinking the dope fiend is back

Now since our condition accommodates things to itself and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know what things are in truth; for nothing comes to us except as falsified and altered by our senses.

They give you a smaller glass so it feels like you're getting more

It is a truism that Hollywood trailers advertise not the movie that has been made, but the movie that the studio wishes had been made.

Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn't know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can.

I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth.

Although it might well be possible for a sufficiently cleverly constructed such system to preserve an illusion, for some considerable time (as with Deep Thought), that it possesses some understanding, I shall maintain that a computer system's actual lack of understanding should-in principle, at least-eventually reveal itself.

You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives. This seems like the newest answer to an old question. Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire- that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing from Saturday morning. Brixton Market? No one is frowning at the quality of the yams, or asking how the snapper's eye so cloudy. There'll be no Saturday soup tonight.

The first axiom of Marx Scientist is that everything they tell you is a lie. The second axiom is that it doesn't matter, since you are lying too. The third axiom is 'Kill all liars!

Kitsch is fake art, expressing fake emotions, whose purpose is to deceive the consumer into thinking he feels something deep and serious, when in fact he feels nothing at all.

was calculated to kill off democracy.

The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so that lying becomes neither necessary nor possible.

Anyone can lie. It suffices to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, however, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included. The liar can pretend to be shocked when his lies are exposed: but his pretence is part of the lie. The fake really is shocked when he is exposed, since he had created around himself a community of trust, of which he himself was a member.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot du Lac to the Keep of Ganelon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

Much of the world is illusion, yet the forms of that illusion follow a pattern which is a part of divine reality.

I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

Corwin," he stated then, "it pleases me more than I can say to see you die not knowing something that means that much for you.