Quotes About Deception

By the hedgehog,' said the smaller, grinning wickedly, 'but they'll think twice before they play at ambuscades again!

And Ningauble began to sort out in his mind the details of the Mouser's story, treasuring it the more because he knew it was an improvisation, his favorite proverb being, He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

But was Percy's approach the only one? Did you have to lie to them, push them, treat them as seven billion morons?

Of course not," Fay denied with a bright incredulous laugh. "Who'd want to loaf around in an imaginary world and take a chance of missing out on what his tickler's doing?—I mean, on what his tickler has in store for him—what he's told his tickler to have in store for him.

Quien miente con arte se acerca a la verdad más de lo que imagina.

When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. The

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist—but Satan never has and never will appear with scars.

The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia.

By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. Bravo, lionlady, he said when he left. We have killed the tiger.

Así resulta que la irrealidad tiene poder sobre la realidad.

Un libro no leído es un proyecto no cumplido. Tener a la vista libros no leídos es como girar cheques sin fondos: un fraude a las visitas.

All beautiful, dangerous idols fall, I thought, if you keep your eye on them long enough.

It was funny how you thought you remembered someone. You sketched their face boldly in your mind, but when you saw them again, you realized how far you were from their true likeness. Had he always been that height, for example? Had he moved the way he did, long strides as he reached the table? Had he smiled at her like that? Maybe she'd constructed false memories of him, fake angles.

When you wear a wire, you're always in danger.

My jaw has been wired and rewired. It's incredible to think people would fake that.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!