Quotes About Deception

The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark

From high in the air, London would look just like a model, with toy houses and miniature trees on tiny streets. Maybe that was the only way you could drop the bombs: by pretending that it wasn't real, that nobody would burn and die when they exploded below.

A mobster who knew Trump socially said of him once, "He'd lie to you about what time of day it is—just for the practice.

Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.

all presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise.

As he listened to her, David wondered again how Jonathan could have betrayed this girl. He must have been so angry and so sad, and that anger and sadness had consumed him.

He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated. This world was not like the world of his stories.

had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled.

through life in his vibrant plumage, advertising his presence, hiding nothing, but when he closed his front door behind him the artificial light in his eyes was suffocated, and the face of the Gray Man was pendent like a dead moon in the blackness of his pupils.

Billy grinned. 'Seems to me that you might be up to no good here. Are you a bad man?' Quayle smiled back, and the lights of the bar gleamed like dying stars in the void of his eyes. 'Trust me when I say that you have no conception.' Billy's smile faded.

Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

If you're getting fucked, then you're getting fucked. But if you're getting fucked by someone who's smiling, then you're really getting fucked.

In the end, the truth doesn't matter.

Earle had friendly written all over him the way that a plague rat had "Hug Me" emblazoned on its fur.

A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy. Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

who wore her makeup so thick that you could have carved your initials into her face without drawing blood.

You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'" Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?" Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.

they slipped one by one again into the merely fictional – Hermes's false Egypt, and Bruno's false Hermes; Kraft's false Bruno; Pierce's false history of the world, the doors that had once blown open blowing closed again one by one down the corridor into the colored centuries.

That was what did the harm, knowing the one, believeing the other.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

Beauty's but skin deep.

It's a limited hang-out.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.