Quotes About Deception

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

It's very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.

If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

That's what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends - ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

I won't tolerate lying.

We want to be deceived. There is bread again. There are jobs.

I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there.

My mind was a little distracted from these anxieties by our encountering a singularly beautiful girl. I should mention, perhaps, lest I be thought in any wat to have misled my readers, that her figure was pudgy, her complexion sallow and her hair a rather drab shade of brown. These possible defects, however, pass unnoticed in a young woman whose expression is that of a medieval saint after a particularly satisfactory vision of the Eternal City.

Like a drug, money can make its addicts betray almost anyone.

Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.

There's nothing closer than a diplomat and a spy.

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

Did nobody see where we were heading? Did nobody see through the shameless demagogy of the articles of Goebbels? I could see it even through the thick walls of the prison; yet more and more people outside were toeing the line.

In broken English, Suhren told the American soldier: 'This is Frau Churchill. She is related to Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of England.' Odette said she then stepped out of the car and added: 'And this is Fritz Suhren, commandant of Ravenbruck concentration camp. Please take him as your prisoner.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.