Quotes About Deception

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn"t.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

sometimes even when I know that you're lying, I still almost believe you.

Strange how you could barely know a person and they were still able to bring out the worst in you.

Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.

it is not what you do or don't do, but how convincingly you can be accused of it.

We like stories that are false and seem true (realist novels), that are true and seem false (true crime), that are false and seem false (dragons and superheroes), or that are true and seem true, but it's harder to agree on what that is.

Idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Sometimes people lie because the truth is too hard to admit.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

What art thou?' Nothing. That's the answer. Nothing. In the heart of hearts- Nothing! So of course you can't stand that and want to be Something, and you try. But instead of being this Something, the man puts it over on everybody instead.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.

Nobody should pretend to be always one hundred per cent honest. I wish I knew how to be seventy, sixty per cent." I swore she must be one hundred and ten, two hundred.

Humankind is still fooling around with hypocrisy, I thought. They don't realize that it's too late even for that.

She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father's.

And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything except evil it is illusion, and not truth.

They did not know how much he cared for them. No. It hurt him greatly and he blamed Margaret for turning them against him. She wanted to ruin him, while she wore the mask of kindness.

Mind you, I'm a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.