Quotes About Deception

I suppose it's true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.

I am a spy," Carter said, relighting his pipe. I lie as a matter of course. So do you.

In the Middle East, people of discretion are either spies or terrorists. - Nadia al-Bakari

Daniel Silva

the Tsar next to her, grinning and preening at his latest triumph over the West. And just who did he think he was fooling with that starched and pressed face of his? Real fascists, thought Charlotte, did not use Botox.

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications. - Gabriel Allon

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications.

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought.

Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.

the organs of Russian state security rarely murder someone without a plan to cast the blame on someone else.

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Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon

Sometimes the only person you can trust is your enemy. - Gabriel Allon

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

The Dar al-Jawasis. The House of Spies.

RT, Russia's English-language network. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Two Minutes Hate.

A proper cover was like a shield. The typical undercover Office field agent spent far more time maintaining his cover than actually gathering intelligence. Cover, they told her, was everything. During

By way of deception, thou shalt do war. —Motto of the Mossad

I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Kebohongan bukan cuma berlawanan dengan kebenaran, tetapi juga sering saling bertentangan di antara mereka sendiri.

Before all that long, you start telling those near to you that you went on interviews that turned out sorry when factually you never even made the phone call.

As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit.