Quotes About Deception

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.

You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It's not like what I read

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

We all find reasons to accept sugary fables and ignore unwelcome tidings.

You always were a blundering chucklehead! Gullible, Rap! That's what you are! You never would think out what other people really wanted. You always accepted anything anyone said and took it at face value . . .

A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

None of this is real.

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

cam kept watching the woman.Then she whispered to Eric "that woman is hiding something.Shes wearing dark glasses and it isnt sunny out.Shes wearing a raincoat and its not raining.Theres sonthing in that bagthat shouldnt be there.Lets follow her .

U nekom trenutku sve pri?e postaju iste, kaže pripoveda?, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripoveda?, da se onaj koj sluša ili ?ita pri?u navede na pomisao da je pri?a koju upravo sluša ili ?ita ipak druga?ija od ostalih. Pripovedanje je, dakle, zavaravanje, kaže pripoveda?, pri?a je, zna?i, laž. (Pripovedanje i pri?a)

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

To fatten a pig, a farmer will feed him well. The pig must think his life a paradise, never knowing he gorges himself so that he will be fatter for the knife later on.

You see, hannibal said, I happily give wine to my friends, but a man who drinks my wine and then rejects my friendship is a thief.

Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

In that city, if people caught the faintest whiff that you were in trouble, that you were a victim, your friends disappeared faster than a bowl of punch at an AA convention.