Quotes About Deception

Todo el mundo mentía. Unas mentiras maravillosas,desenfrenadas,optimas,desmedidas,entusiastas.

Todas estas conversaciones eran mentiras basadas en un deseo único e imposible: parecer normales. O, por lo menos, lo bastante normales como para que nos dejaran volver a casa.

Rumplestilskin ha vuelto

La gente dice «lo siento» sin parar. ¿Sabes cuántas veces he oído esa frase? Demasiadas. Y rara vez quien la pronuncia lo siente de verdad. Normalmente lo que quiere decir es «siento que me hayan pillado».

The best game to play, is the game you don´t realize you are playing.

Un buen psicoterapeuta es como un jugador de póquer con las apuestas altas —pensó—. Evita dar pistas a los demás jugadores para poder tirarse un farol y quedarse con lo que hay en el centro de la mesa.»

No se precisa un diploma en la pared para acreditar que se es perverso.

Valora demasiado lo que la gente le dice. Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla. El

Valora demasiado lo que la gente le dice. Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla.

El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estas jugando.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

Motel Hell is a black comedy about hypocrisy, about the way in which every person, even serial killers like Farmer Vincent, tell themselves little lies to get through the day. It's easier to do terrible things, one concludes, when you believe you're doing good.

I can at least comfort myself with the idea that whatever Ive done Ive helped to nail a lie, and Im coming to think that lying is among the worst of all human failings. Next to actual killing. And experience has made us almost equally good at both of them. I have killed many people and seen many more killed on my orders, Jogajong said. It is what must be paid to buy what we want. What weve been told we want, by liars more skilled than ourselves.

UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didnt manage.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.

Creepo just smiles, like a python at a cornered rat.

How best to state his case. In a game of stakes and odds, Onions held a full corpse to his one arm – he didn't even have a pair.

Bonham walked down the line with a stack of sixpences and passed them out like a priest of mammon at unholy communion. Hands flashed like the tongues of lizards, deftly trousering the loot.

Troy had always thought of pipes as a way of passing off vacuity as thought, the hollow man's way of seeming less than hollow.

The greatest trick that powerful interest groups ever pulled was convincing the world that everyone who detects and reports their activities is a conspiracy theorist.

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TVAnd you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.

John Lescroart