Quotes About Deception

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Morton and the rest of the conspirators, around eighty in all, came up the main staircase

Her guilt or innocence depends on whether the letters are true or false.

thus Jacob's name, which means "the deceiver

The spirit that caused Cain to murder Abel was pride. The spirit that caused Israel to follow other gods was pride. And the spirit that sent Jesus to the cross … that lurked in the heart of every Pharisee … was the spirit of self-righteous pride. That same demonic spirit is destroying America; it deceives us in believing that we know how to run our lives and lead our nation better than God can.

Every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 John 4:3)

La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón? Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición.

Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts—meant to be broken.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.

Children and fools cannot lie.

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

one reason Italians place such emphasis on what is visible is because they assume it is a representation of something that is not.

There is no friendship in the desert, there is no love. The Sahara only knows allies and accomplices. [Hopkins quoting B. Gysin's The Process]

Samuel Johnson said, 'It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

So what do I do when the call comes to take part in a 'reality' show? Like a gullible teenager with stars in his eyes and mush where his brain should be, I fall for it.

it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.

The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours. Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance

Leaders lie to each other and to their own people because they believe that doing so serves the national interest. And the sad fact is that lying sometimes does make good strategic sense.

They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.

The best game to play, he thought, is the game you don't realize you are playing.

Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla.

Una promesa suele estar tan cerca de ser una mentira como de ser una verdad»