Quotes About Deception

A modern definition of terrorism: 'the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong'.

Mistaken about good and bad, unwittingly taken in by things that are ultimately harmful for us, we suffer from something akin to a perceptual illusion, only much deeper and more problematic. It's like the Müller-Lyer illusion: we can't help experiencing the lines as of different length, even if we know they're not.

That cloak of love you were wearing—he's torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?

The Rajah's handsome eunuch never guessed that she was telling him the tale of her own life.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Alegremente" es la palabra de la casa. Estáis envenenados de alegría. Y no era eso lo que pensaba yo encontrar aquí. Creí que encontraría... a mis verdaderos compañeros, no a unos ilusos».

Antonio J. Méndez

Antonio J. Méndez

The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.

Se miente más de la cuenta por falta de fantasía: también la verdad se inventa.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Han dejado de engañarte, no de quererte. Y te parece que han dejado de quererte.

Donde hemos puesto algo, siempre creemos que hay algo, aunque no haya nada.

A black crow does not become a white dove by putting on its body the same color dress or paint; Similarly, a self-indulgent wearing any colour of devout outfit and giving a sermon in a soft, seamless and sweet accent to a large number of selfish disciples does not become a spiritual master or saint.

A brigand can also be portrayed publicly as a legend and those who don't understand their game plan easily extend the supporting hand to them.

A company who cheats its employees gets merely the customers & clients who eat covertly its progress and profit through its workforce only.

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fools.

A devil is surrounded by befriended demons who smile before his face, but behind speak all ill & conspire evil plans against him only.

A devil on being caught for his evil thought and wrong doings gets the help sought of his buddies asking them to go into public with a mask of a civil to rebuke him first virulently and later on revoke all allegations and aspersions cast on him to give him a clean chit.

A fool thinks that so-called networking friends are liking his face posted almost daily online, but a wise merely knows that it is their ways of making fun of him/her only.

A foolish guy easily falls into the love trap of a selfish gal.

A guy who does not feel shy, shame & guilt to speak relentlessly lie in every pie of information has a promising career to reach position very high in the field of politics and journalism. If he also wants to live life king size, fly often in sky, always enjoy at others expenses, first deprive and then pretend to cry over that matter, think selfishly in terms of I,ME & MY then he can also become head of the nation or private organization.

A kiss of a woman is like a hiss of a serpent.