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Quotes About Deception

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
~ Anne Bishop
It felt uncomfortable to lie to someone who was being kind. She hadn't known a lie could have a physical weight.
~ Anne Bishop
you look the truth in the face - not the truth that has fangs and fur but the hard truth about yourself, that you're just as dangerous as the beings the rest of the people fear but you can't afford to be as honest about it. You can't tell those people that you'll make deals with what they fear in order to keep them sage from the monsters who look just like them.
~ Anne Bishop
I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.
~ Anne Bishop
Sometimes I think her chest is made of ice, and she has to stay emotionally cold to hide the smell of a roting heart.
~ Anne Bishop
They're never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.
~ Anne Bishop
Most people aren't going to want to admit that the monsters in this case not only look human but are human.
~ Anne Bishop
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
~ Anne Bishop
Words lie. Blood doesn't.
~ Anne Bishop
But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her. When dealing with humans, honesty isn't always the best policy , Vlad thought
~ Anne Bishop
Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.
~ Anne Bradstreet
He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies must needs lie down in the bed of sorrow.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
~ Anne Bradstreet
Women, far more than men, deceive the opposite sex by alterations to their appearance such as wearing make-up, painting their nails, getting fake tans, and wearing tight clothing.
~ Anne Campbell
You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.
~ Anne Carson
M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories
~ Anne Carson
And yet hope turns out to be let's face it mostly delusion a word derived from Latin ludere meaning "to play a game with oneself or others"...
~ Anne Carson
Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.
~ Anne Carson
Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.
~ Anne Carson
Boyd loved an inaccuracy, for example, because an inaccuracy could render everything else you said void. It
~ Anne Enright
A história demonstrou decididamente que as mulheres sabem ser maléficas
~ Anne Holt
Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.
~ Anne Mallory
Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.
~ Anne Mallory
Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.
~ Anne Mallory