Quotes About Deception

That's not true. I've known some dandy politicians. They care more about appearance than anything.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.

Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water.

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

God revealed to me that our country and our president must overcome one obstacle, one sinister trick of the devil in order to get this snowball of revival rolling across the land. One small deception that makes us vulnerable to our enemies in this upcoming season of vicious spiritual warfare: Fear.

i'm a hustler, swindler, cheater, and liar. - Winston.

One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist.

Onunla ayn? çat? alt?nda yaÅŸayan bir varl?k öylesine güzel ve narindi ki Muhammed'in cennetindeki imanl?lara vaat olunmuÅŸ ümidi tuvale aksettirmek isteyen bir ressama modellik edebilirdi; bununla birlikte, fazlas?yla zeka yans?tan gözleri, onun ruh yoksunlar?ndan biri olduÄŸunu düÅŸünebilecek kiÅŸileri yalanl?yordu.

El lobo se vestía con piel de cordero y el rebaño consentía el engaño.»

You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you—that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else.

It was a strategy that disguised itself as love and concern, and thus one against which he was helpless.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

the façade he has erected not so much to disguise himself from another as to mask himself against his own recognition.

You think my life is camouflage?" Ben held the stare. "Sir, I think everything you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you let yourself sleep is nothing more than a shadow dance.

My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.

he belonged. We did not, and because we did not, we had no positive—we were condemned to negatives, to not revealing ourselves, to not speaking when we would, to not using what we knew, to not being found out—to a life of perpetual deception, concealment, and lying.

The one thing you are not good at is playing dumb.

Sometimes, she wanted quite furiously to hurt him; now, for instance, to lean forward and snap at him: 'Why do you dye your hair? I know you do. In this light it looks utterly horrible.

Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.