Quotes About Deception

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace. Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere.

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.

Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I'm sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).

My parents watch too many soap operas, that's their trouble. In fact, they were probably hoping I was pregnant. By my wicked married lover whom they could then murder and bury under the patio.

Qué le voy a decir? Seré franca y sincera, pero sin contarle la verdad.

So instead I'm zapping her lots of smiley faces and emojis of shiny suns and sailboats and dodging the truth altogether. (Maybe that's what emojis were invented for in the first place, and I've just been using them wrong. They're not there to convey thoughts in a fun way; they're there to lie to your mum.)

Maybe that's what emojis were invented for in the first place, and I've just been using them wrong. They're not there to convey thoughts in a fun way; they're there to lie to your mum.)

The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize at first. You keep saying I'm fine to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: Why aren't I fine?

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Once you've started cheating, does it matter what your methods are?

if he thinks he's never competed with clothes before, than his girl friends have ben lying to him.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.

And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.

A friend in word is never friend of mine.

They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath.

Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?

Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.

And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.

Things gained by unjust fraud are never secure

so I believed—what a handsome prince you raised— under the skin, what sickness to the core.

your own father's hands that served his once bright eyes so well— that made them blind.