Quotes About Deception

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Which matters more to you, God or pretty illusions that you've been taught in God's name? (Or have you been clinging to the austere illusion of emptiness?) Consequences will flow from your choice.

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

The bastard even limped fast.

I find that by some unfortunate chance I continue to want you, you jade-eyed sorceress with your wanton gold body and your calculating little mind!

Rufe nodded. "Oh, sure, that's CIA style. Throw up a smoke screen—bumfoozle the opposition.

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.

What did the old man want?" "Your husband's money, just like everyone else." "But not you, eh?" Her voice was sardonic. "Not me," I said. "Money costs too much.

The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced. I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that I was going to grow old and die.

I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

You'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes and sell his body for soap.

Bess came out of her room. She had changed into a dress which had to be hooked up the back and I was elected to hook it up. Though she had a strokeable-looking back, my hands were careful not to wander. The easy ones were nearly always trouble: frigid or nympho. schizy or commercial or alcoholic, sometimes all five at once. Their nicely wrapped gifts of themselves often turned out to be homemade bombs, or fudge with arsenic in it.

Only the blind had not seen Terry Neville.

HE WORLD LOOKS AT YOU and sees one person; you look in the mirror and see another.

Y aquel velo era el velo de los sueños, de los dulces sueños que hacen ver la vida de color de rosa. Y con él envolvió a los cuatro hombres flacos, barbudos e impertinentes. Los cuales cesaron de estar tristes, porque penetró en su pecho la esperanza, y en su cabeza el sol alegre, con el diablillo de la vanidad, que consuela en sus profundas decepciones a los pobres artistas.

Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit 'Guten Abend' an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, dass es kein guter Abend ist.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

The Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

The further the distance, the stronger the illusion.