Quotes About Deception

There is little likelihood of gaining my consent to your marriage with anyone whom I can at the moment call to mind.' 'Except,' said Miss Taverner through her teeth, 'yourself!' 'Except, of course, myself,' he agreed suavely. 'And do you suppose, Lord Worth, that there is any great likelihood of my marrying you?' inquired Judith in a sleek, deceptive voice. He raised his brows. 'Until I ask you to marry me, Miss Taverner, not the least likelihood,' he replied gently.

Richard paused. He drew his hand across his eyes, shuddering. "Milward saw the scratch. He cried out that the cards were marked! Suddenly everyone seemed to be gathered about our table—all talking! Jack had his hand on my shoulder; he and Dare were running through the pack. But all the while I could look at no one but Tracy—Andover. He seemed so sinister, so threatening, in those black clothes of his.

She made the rather horrifying discovery that the slim fingers of a lady could curl into claws, and quickly straightened them.

But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.

The whole pack of them were lying, one way or another, some to shield others, some from fear.

Damn it, he was in here with the door locked!' Stephen said. 'He can't have been stabbed'.

He had all the essential attributes for high office; the morals of a politician, the Machiavellian mind of a con man, and a wife who was related to half the top brass in the force. He couldn't fail.

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

Lord Jesus Christ is the touchstone which can turn all our deeds to gold,' he said anxiously. 'I pray He can forgive that lie of mine.

How could they know that a miller's not just as greedy as a hole in the ground, but as slippery as a handful of butter as well?

I know of no Liars Anonymous organizations.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he's a liar.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

Some people look like they're working hard but they're not. Some people who are working hard don't look like it.

Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus.

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

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.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all the time in their own way by throwing a load of statistics at you when things don't quite follow and then saying, 'So therefore blah,' and you believe that 'blah' thing because of the confusion that's come before.

Satan works through human agents.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.