Quotes About Deception

But how we love looking fine in the eyes of the world—how beautiful are the old when they are doing a snow job!

How lovely she could be! her face was gay and round, pink, the blue of her eyes was clear. Very different from the terrifying menstrual ice of her rages, the look of the murderess.

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

My mother, in the style of the times, told me I could do anything I set my sights on. She said I could be the president, an astronaut, or the next Charles Schulz. I believed her because at that point in my life I hadn't yet noticed the pattern of her deceptions.

money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.

A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.

Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

If you've taken a photo with your camera's pop-up flash, you're probably wondering how camera manufacturers list pop-up flash as a feature and keep a straight face. It's probably because the term pop-up flash is actually a marketing phrase dreamed up by a high-powered PR agency, because its original, more descriptive, and more accurate name is actually the ugly-maker.

It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it. Bug, Calo said, Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.' Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,' added Galo. The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ... ... is Locke ... ... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ... ... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.

There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.

When one is tricked into accepting a favor, it feels like a trick, not a favor.

people never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse.

You put a weasel in a forty-dollar suit, and you get a forty-dollar weasel.

If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said you bet. You did ... and you lost.

She made up this whole tale about me. I worked in the jail. I hated the men in there. Just the way she and most of the other girls hated the men in the club. That's why they seemed to do it. For the chance to look down on men, who want it so badly, so openly, and who're not going to get it.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. But you're... Pretty? Think again. She smiled. I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.