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Quotes About Deception

The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.
~ Augusto Roa Bastos
Boys are like toilet paper. You rip them off, use them to wipe your ass, and then flush them down the toilet.
~ Aurora
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
~ Ausonius
Truth is the mother of hatred.
~ Ausonius
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
~ Austin O'Malley
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
~ Austin O'Malley
É através dos enganos que se acha o caminho correto.
~ Austin Osman Spare
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
~ Author Unknown
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
~ Author Unknown
When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull. I love Dirk, he is such a drama queen.
~ Ava Gardner
He is super excited to see a big bunch of bootlickers going to bow before him and beg undue business favour from him and a lot of prepaid people will be brought to stand on both sides of road to wave and do slogan for him.
~ Awakening Beaconing
I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The army struck hard at the roots of populist politics by assassinating Bhutto. The prime minister was arrested, tried for murder and hung in 1979. The Machiavellian prince had turned into the tragic character of Christopher Marlow's Dr Faustus, who had sold his soul to the devil
~ Ayesha Siddiqa
Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.
~ B. Traven
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
~ B.F. Skinner
People often surprised you, especially the innocent-looking ones, she'd found.
~ B.J. Daniels
She was a woman who'd foolishly married a handsome, smooth-talking man. Now she was living a bad country song.
~ B.J. Daniels
Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.
~ B.J. Daniels
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that people aren't always who you think they are.
~ B.J. Daniels
Stupid girl. Now she was going to have to die.
~ B.J. Daniels
Often people meet other people by chatting via computer. They get to talking, seem to have a lot in common, even fall in love without ever meeting each other in person." The farmer was staring at him. "That's the craziest thing I ever heard." "Unfortunately, often the person on the other end of the chat isn't telling the truth about themselves. Jenna could have been lured by one of these people. They call it catfishing.
~ B.J. Daniels
She was a joke, and the only man she'd ever loved now knew it.
~ B.J. Daniels
The foolish man who, under the infatuation, believes that a particular beautiful woman has fallen for him verily dances to her tune as though he is her plaything!
~ B.K. Chaturvedi