Quotes About Deception

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Have you heard that terrifying expression "to kill time"? It's time that kills us, but we pretend it's the other way around!

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Hungarian men are very interesting. They know how to say what you want to hear. They are very clever. But they do not mean these words. Five or six months later, when it is enough, then they will say the really awful things." Those words, "when it is enough," stayed with me for a long time.

Exactly! Because he's not a real person, you don't have to worry about it. Do you see what I'm saying? He looks like an ideal person, but the real person behind that mask could have all kinds of problems.

At some point I thought I had grown a lump in my thigh, but it turned out to be a tangerine- it had fallen through a hole in the pocket and ended up trapped in the lining.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic.

Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember. Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

Death to all betrayers!

MILO: You must be joking. ANDREW: You would know it if I were.

He'd dethroned the king, married the princess, and taken over the kingdom. Did he really expect me to believe he'd done so ingenuously, blundering forward with a heart full of the best intentions? I think he did. What was more, in that moment at least, he seemed to believe it himself.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.

Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake

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