Quotes About Deception

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

Punic faith.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Kallioviski gave a thin smile as he thought, Oh world, beware of clever sheep. They are the truly dangerous ones, for they understand the stupidity of the flock, know just how easy it is to lead the people to slaughter.

There is always a price to pay when one tinkers with the truth.

A real actor can't love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn't know how to love someone for the real.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

it's the lies that get us through life, right?

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away

The narcissist flaunts his charitable nature as a bait. He impresses others with his selflessness and kindness and thus lures them into his lair, entraps them, and manipulates and brainwashes them into subservient compliance and obsequious collaboration. People are attracted to the narcissist's larger than life posture – only to discover his true personality traits when it is far too late. "Give a little to take a lot" – is the narcissist's creed.

Zeke snickers through a thin, diseased beard. "I really need you to stop now," and from the hollow of his back, as if scratching an itch, Zeke produces the tool of a coward and a cheat.

Humans are so good at imagining things, they invent gods who feel so real, they then betray us by not existing.

Fool Me Twice I took a risk by reinvesting myself I took an even bigger one when I began to care But I tightened the knot of the noose around my neck When I began to Love you again You kicked the chair out from under me So I didn't even have to jump

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes