Quotes About Deception

But while they stayed down, rolling around and trying to kill each other, Em jumped to her feet. Her costumes sometimes have little finishing touches that no one can see. She hadn't told me about this one.

Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought.

You remember the story I told you about the witch named Circe? She lived on an island alone, but men wandered there all the time, pretending to be blown off course. She turned every one of them into pigs, but they kept coming. Just to nibble at her painted toes a while before the slaughter. Well, turning men into pigs is no particular feat. The real exercise is getting pigs to write checks.

It's a lie, it's a lie, I'm screaming inside. I think of paralyzing venoms and morphine dreams. You're only seeing what will keep you docile… But try telling him that. As Stefan sags further, a gap opens between them, and in the hostile interplay of firelight and shadow, I catch a glimpse of the network of gnashing maws at the chaotic center of Jaeger's being.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

The commendation of apparent friends is more dangerous than reproach.

Cel mai puternic bastion al viciului din lumea noastra, nu este viata nelegiuita a pacatosilor abandonati sau a proscrisilor degenerati, ci o viata care pare virtuoasa, onorabila si nobila, dar în care este nutrit un pacat, este îngaduit un viciu... În felul acesta, geniul, talentul, simpatia si chiar faptele generoase si amabile pot deveni momeli ale lui Satana pentru a ademeni sufletele în prapastia ruinei.

Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling over a scarecrow and pretend he was handsome...

Not without a struggle could Jesus listen in silence to the arch-deceiver.

See Revelation 13:11-17.

Unlike your mother," she said, exhaling, "I told the culprit immediately. I thought at the very least he would visit me in the hospital after it was all done, but the son of a bitch sent me a get well card. Can you imagine? Serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never even look at twice.

Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?" People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?" "What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends.

If enough dishonest merchants water their milk, more and more customers will forget what normal milk tastes like and buy only the cheaper - watered down - variety.

Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.

Realmente es la búsqueda de un otro que no existe, y que sin embargo nos tiene arteramente contaminada la identidad.

You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else.

But when you begin with bullshit the conclusion you reach is still bullshit.

No one had ever taught him - and he had never imagined the necessity of learning - how to betray the one person whom you truly cared for in life. The only person who genuinely loved you. How to break that person's heart, whether it be tomorrow, or five years or ten years in the future.

I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.