Quotes About Deception

All I want in life is clarity, transparency, so I know who is doing what, and to whom, at all times. My only real enemies in life are liars, and they'll do everything to stop me because they want the contamination to continue, because it's comfortable for them, or completely ignorant mindless fools who believe every word they read in a daily rag.

El error viene del engaño (decir mentiras)

Wer diese Worte liest - was für ein Bild bekommt er von mir? […] Kein hübsches Bild. Die Worte lügen also, in gewisser Hinsicht jedenfalls. Wie immer.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad...

Was there a version of "The Seducer's Diary" where they were equal—where he wasn't tricking her into doing something she didn't want? Or was that what seduction was?

You can never trust hypocrites. They are liars. They are worse than disbelievers, because a disbeliever has not lied, saying that he believed and then turned back. This makes hypocrites the most hated of all people.

She wasn't sure if they were telling her the truth; sometimes they told her things to see if she was gullible enough to believe them.

But the world is filled with deceptions and betrayals--nearly every life has one--and yet the sun still rises and sets, the world continues on.

She has new hair and new boobs, but her insides are still rotten.

Secrets are lies! They're lies!

The worst and best are both inclinedTo snap like vixens at the truth;But, O, beware the middle mindThat purrs and never shows a tooth!

Honeyed words like bees,Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.

It was apparent that there were no facts. Reality was a vague stink that anyone could smell, but no one knew where it came from.

Like all domestic tyrants, he was shamelessly deceived and "managed" by the women of his establishment.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

She reminded me of the girls I'd grown up with. Spoiled, undeniably pretty girls who tirelessly solicited compliments by claiming to be disgusted by their looks (too fat, too thin), who'd beg you to order nachos or fries to share! and then, claiming loss of appetite, sit and stare at you while you ate like they were watching porn. Who one day are your best friends and the next the agents of your destruction.

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

did: In the first Place, by making no Person in the World a Confident in it; and in the next, in concealing from Beauplaisir himself the Knowledge who she was; for though she met him three or four Days in a Week, at the Lodging she had taken for that Purpose, yet as much as he employ'd her Time and Thoughts, she was never miss'd from any Assembly she had been accustomed to frequent.

The Devil's most devilish when respectable.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Is it 'the cruellest cut of all' when you talk of infinite kindness, yet attribute such villainy to me?

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another

But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.

Aristotle, asked what those who tell lies gain by it, replied: That when they speak the truth they are not believed::