Quotes About Deception

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

I keep life filled and speeded up so that I can cheat myself into believing that I am happy and contented, but oh! When night comes and I go to bed and turn out the lights, I lie there in the dark, I realize the absolute futility of trying to kid myself.

Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?

Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?

They don't have any idea I work for the Population Police.

Nina," Luke said finally. "Nina was the other traitor." "Yes," Mr. Talbot said.

he kept getting glimmers of hope—hope that died instantly when he moved the chairs aside and saw nothing there.

Only make up what you have to. Otherwise, tell as much truth as you can. That means you have fewer lies to keep track of, and you're not as likely to trip yourself up.

Luke thought he'd been escaping danger when he took Lee Grant's identity. Why did he suddenly feel like he'd only traded one peril for another?

I was thinking and feeling was true, no matter how much I had to tell lies everywhere else.

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But

Evil turns upon itself.

Fortunately, our friend Raistlin taught me what to watch—" "Raistlin!" Flint puffed. "That pasty-faced, skinny magician. He's more than half charlatan himself. Always sniveling and whining and poking his nose where it doesn't belong. If it weren't for his twin brother looking after him, someone would've put an end to his magic long ago.

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false.

For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But what of you? How was your journey to your homelands?