Quotes About Deception

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells. - Frederick Chase

Agnes Carmichael, who turns out to be the killer, hasn't spoken a word – hardly surprising, as she's a deaf mute.

From Pünd's experience, people who were so insistent on the truth were very rarely telling it.

a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

I have spoken to you before of the nature of human wickedness, my friend. How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.

The grieving widow,' Hawthorne muttered. 'Do you think so?' 'No, Tony. I've seen more grief at a Turkish wedding. If you ask me, I'd say there's a lot of things she's not telling

His first job was to find some rich lady's pedigree Siamese cat. He managed to run it over on the way to see her. The second job was a divorce case – which you may think is run-of-the-mill until I tell you that the clients were perfectly happily married until he came along… There hadn't been a third case.

That's the thing about funerals. They're completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it's not true.

These people...I've never come across anyone like them. You want the truth? They make Scorpia look like a vicar's tea party.

It meant nothing to me. You can stick a piece of metal on a coward and a liar but it won't change what he is.

When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

saw it in the papers. When he took that fifty grand off Diana Cowper, it looks like he was ripping her off.' 'Maybe she knew something about him. It could have given him a reason to kill her.

but I want you to know that it was him who said what we were going to do once we got out. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. I always heard he had a reputation for telling the truth but that wasn't what he did this time, not when it would have stayed with him for the rest of his life. And think what it would have done for his career!!! Not the Blunt Razor. The Blubbing Loser.

But such gossip cannot be confronted. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

That's what he said. So if she could see him across the road, that means her eyesight was perfectly good. She made up the whole thing.

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

It was true that she looked too ordinary, too vulnerable to be a psychopathic killer, but then, from what I'd read, most psychopathic killers are just like that. It's why they're so hard to catch.

Another lie in a life that had been nothing but lies.

He wants to make money! And he doesn't care if he trashes my life to get it. I told you. That man is vile. He should never have come to this island. He's positively evil.

It was the sort of thing Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was.

He sounded almost too genuine to be genuine.

What?' I couldn't believe what he had just said. 'She's faking being blind?' It was one of the most disgusting things I'd ever heard.

At the moment, there's just the four of us who know that your wife is a cold-hearted, manipulative bitch. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep it that way. What do you think?