Quotes About Deception

Spies have no sense of timing.

und die halbe Wahrheit, die vorgibt, die ganze zu sein, ist schlimmer als die schlimmste Lüge.

There are very real forces that whisper lying innuendos that assault your mind, your will, and your emotions in the hope of causing you to turn on yourself and then to turn on others.

For some of us, our feelings are an idol. If we feel beautiful, we believe we are beautiful. If we feel good, we believe we are good. If we live by our feelings alone, they will lie to us and it will not be long before we are led astray.

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.

His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right.

We all wear masks. And the more we have to hide, the more accomplished the veneer.

You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they're avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.

I wonder if that's how I look to others; like I'm normal and functional, too, when in fact, I feel completely emptied out.

Basically, that snapshot the smart fridge took to help you figure out what fruit to buy might also include a view of your ex-husband's dead body, which you'd planned on burying later in the day with the shovel Alexa had ordered for you from Amazon.

The truth did not always set you free. Sometimes it bound you to dark, bloody deeds and cost you the people you loved.

Then another possibility came to me, scarier and sadder than all the others. She could've been kidnapped to serve as recruitment bait. A quiet, pretty immigrant teen. Held against her will, then sent out to bus stops and train stations to meet other unsuspecting teens and lure them over to meet her "friends": sex traffickers, pimps, dope dealers.

It's a popular trick among the streetwise to appear richer than they are.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

Harris Reed: Ah, you caught me. Bobby: And now's the part when I throw you back.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .