Quotes About Deception

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

When teenagers lie, it's often for the same reasons that adults do: to impress people, to advance themselves (academically, financially, or in some other way), to protect their friends, and — like Cain — to get out of trouble. While these reasons may make a lie understandable, they should never make lying acceptable . God doesn't wink at deception.

People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)

A look of fury, a look of pain, a look of hatred you can trust. A smile can hide anything.

I will confess!" shrieked Teufel, "I will confess!" "Excellent," said Glokta brightly. "Excellent," said Severard. "Etherer," said Practical Frost.

When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful had no need of.

A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.

Well, everyone lies. The difference between a hero and a villain is whether anyone believes him.

Don't deceive yourself. Everyone is guilty of something, and even the innocent can be a threat. Perhaps it takes small crimes to prevent bigger ones, Colonel West, but it's up to bigger men than us to decide.

People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.

lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

If you could kill a man by frowning at his back, the Breaker of Swords would have fallen bloody through the Last Door that day, but a frown is no blade, and Thorn's hatred cut no one but her.

She also knew that the story you made up in your mind was rarely the real story.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth.

I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.