Quotes About Deception

Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls.

It slowly dawned on me: if I could lie and be quickly forgiven, there was nothing to stop me from actually doing some of the stuff I was making up. Catholicism flipped a switch and turned me on to a life of crime.

Kad se jedna laž ponavlja dugo, narod po?inje da veruje.

Kozorogi, što me nisi poštedeo toga! Što si mi pomogao da srušim spomenik od zlata, od mesa, od mese?ine. Euridiko sliko, Euridiko senko, Euridiko — kurvo kamenjarko!

What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn't feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no farther.

C'est le destin de tout écrivain que d'être un traitre.

The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

It was nine French fries because I counted. Was it a lie that Aja said he ate ten French fries? Did a small lie like that matter? Bree didn't look at me or talk to me again all day. The Earth sun was not shining inside me. It was as dark as midnight in there. That evening, I was surprised Bree still came over to talk about the party. She frowned and said, "Well, we still have to figure out the food." Mom and Dad were in the study working on the loud-soft problem. The

Their [politicians] fiction mechanisms are immune to trauma.

Un antiguo proverbio reza: «Si las hienas te van pisando los talones, arrójales para que se alimenten el más jugoso de los bocados: un cordero recién nacido. Ya verás, cuando abran las mandíbulas para triturar a su presa, no hay hiena ni chacal que preste atención al resto».

Ellos quieren la revolución… y nosotros les daremos las reformas… tantas reformas… los ahogaremos en las reformas. ¡Oh mejor aun, los ahogaremos en las promesas de las reformas, porque ni siquiera esas les daremos!

Ten cuidado, quienes optan por cobrar ventaja en su propio interés mediante el engaño y la mentira se destruyen a menudo a sí mismos y pierden credibilidad ante los que les llevan en el corazón.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

An enemy can seek to harm us, but an enemy can't betray us. Betrayal can only come at the hands of someone we love and trust. That's why betrayal is so utterly painful. What is done to the heart is devastating.

graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less.

Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense.

The deceptive thing about the little figure that is not there is that its absence so often goes unnoticed. That, of course, is the secret of its success.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie" it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers bring about a suspension of common sense

What comes full of virtue from the statistician's desk may find itself twisted, exaggerated, oversimplified, and distorted-through-selection by salesman, public-relations expert, journalist, or advertising copywriter.