Quotes About Deception

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

That the analogy contains a grain of truth does not make it the less mischievous.

the hardest lies to live with are the ones we tell ourselves. And when we actually start to believe them... well, at that point, there's no hope.

If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie.

The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

There is no such thing as a dog

Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012

Robinson in Glen plaid jacket, Scotch-grain shoes,Black four-in-hand and oxford button-down,The jeweled and silent watch that winds itself, the brief-Case, covert topcoat, clothes for spring, all coveringHis sad and usual heart, dry as a winter leaf.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

He understood everything: He could keep his eyes open and the buffalo wouldn't appear, or close them and it would.

She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

Emma and her stupid allergies. On Peopleportal, she's just Carley Theresa.

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

I'm afraid truth isn't the only thing that matters in law, Suzannah. And out in the real world, it doesn't matter at all.

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

Sounds painful, but the lady on the bottle is smiling

Every lawyer told me, "We'll get him out." But they were just lying so I would keep paying them.

As a child I experienced a lot of betrayal. One time I ran into my babysitter, and she was with another kid. They were holding hands, and the kid wasn't even cute. And I recently found out my babysitter was only with me for the money.

How is it we can do those things, things that feel permanent, like even if the relationship ended, those feelings would still be there? It makes me not believe in anything, in any feeling, in any profession, in any love at all. It's all just bullshit. Just hormones and lust and needs and filling people's gaps, the holes in their souls. We all just use each other, don't we? Nothing is what it seems.

People are crazy, he says. Havent you figured that out? No one is what they seem. And the older we get, the better we hide.

Everyone I could ever trust, everyone you could ever trust, could betray you. It doesn´t matter who they are or whether they mean to do it.

If Steve didn't have a job, where did he go every day after he put on his suit and strolled out the door with his briefcase? More important, why hadn't he told her?

We live in a world where you don't know who to trust anymore because most people are not honest and do anything for a couple of dollars bills.