Quotes About Deception

To the degree we are ignorant of the way our adversary thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices—to that degree he will gain on us, prey on us, defraud us of what is ours and have or hold the greater portion.

Matters not how you smile, fact is that you did.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

It is a society in which the subservient appearance observed among us is dangerously deceptive. The occasional warning sign the dam is about to burst is most often ignored by our keepers.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

The best secrets are the most twisted

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

There is nothing as unreal as life.

A lie never lives to be old.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.