Quotes About Deception

Bahram smiled to himself as he listened: the arguments were marvellously simple yet irrefutable. Really, there was no language like English for turning lies into legalisms.

But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.

Feiten zijn volgens mij vaak de ergste vijanden van de waarheid.

Really," "really and truly," those code words which barely conceal a lie.)

We have both bought our redemption at a terrible price. You had to forge a lie. I had to bring in the heads of innocent men. We have both sold our souls to gain acceptance in this new and terrible world

The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself back into the house and steals a hundred thousand dollars that the drug dealer can't report missing. The drug dealer's wife goes to India, where she sends her husband a cable: The people here are poor so I gave them all your money.

For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

To keep false hopes is to prolong misery.

I think about our marriage. The weft of our seventeen years together was so easily torn apart. Our love was as ordinary as the identical welcome mats found in the suburbs we grew up in. The fact that our bodies, our thoughts, our hearts had once moved in rhythm with each other had only fooled us into thinking we were special.

Life was good until the putges came. After that, there was nothing to do except flee into the jungle, high up, where it was so thick only wold things grew. When the putgest stopped Black Spot and his grids and cousin went quietly to the town of Nyang Shwe, where they were not known. They procured black-market identity cards of dead people with good reputations. After that they lived two ways: in the open life of the dead, and in the hidden life of the living.

Lies spread faster than you can catch them.

The mind fools the eye. The eye makes us fools.

Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe.

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness, she said, only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress my hairdresser, my make-up, it will work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.