Quotes About Deception

Feints within feints within feints.

Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow.

Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir's methods.

A smile touched Piter's lips. "And to think, Baron: the Padishah Emperor believes he's given the Duke your spice planet. How poignant.

In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

The old woman said: "You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. —THE OPEN-ENDED PROOF FROM THE PANOPLIA PROPHETICA

Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

their faces masked by smiles.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Frank Herbert

Yueh ventured a thin smile, thinking: I believe it has worked. Now, she'll think anything unusual in my manner is due to embarrassment. She'll not look for deeper reasons when she believes she already knows the answer.

I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.

Piter de Vried

This . . . rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

Observe the plans within plans within plans

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . . —FROM THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL:

Siyaset: OlabildiÄŸince çok ÅŸeyi gizlerken tamamen aç?k ve içten gibi görünme sanat?.

If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear," Jessica said, her voice sweet. "I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

En derinlerdeki dürtülerimizi gizlemeye çal??t???m?z zaman tüm varl???m?z ihaneti hayk?r?r.

Bir s?rr? gizlemenin en iyi yolu, insanlar? yan?t? zaten bildiklerine inand?rmakt?r. O zaman soru sormazlar.

Well now, whose feint am I?

Gözler temel önem ta??rd?. Teg ÅŸunu öÄŸrenmiÅŸti ki insan uygun türden gözlerin içinde boÄŸulabilirdi, dosdoÄŸru içlerine gömülebilirdi ve kendisine yap?lan? fark etmezdi...