Quotes About Deception

he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your years. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your ears. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

For the Gentleman Bastards, well, it's just what we do." "We?" "We.

Q: What is the definition of innocence? A: A nun working in a condom factory, thinking she's making sleeping bags for mice.

As they entered the house, Adam realized that people never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse.

all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don't it?

Because all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don't it?

The face of Kardashian in an oil stain. Or a doorway to hell. Maybe those are the same thing.

suppose you're going to lie about your maggot pudding, and that's why you've hidden it away. Because you're so proud." "Oh, no," she said. "The Reverend's coming, and he's a vegetarian, so he can't have maggots.

Lying, like marksmanship and tomato growing, got easier with practice. He

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.

No longer an innocent newborn, Elizabeth can tease, joke, and play make-believe because a gap has opened between what she knows to be so and what she pretends or imagines. More than any other quality, this gap is what distinguishes our species, enabling us to deceive one another and ourselves, but also enabling us to see beyond the way things happen to be, to envision alternatives, to make art and science and revolution, to invent things new under the sun.

Funny thing about rumors," Sebastian said softly. "It doesn't matter if they're true or false, only that people believe them.

Four: Corruption of the Innocent. That's you guys.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. (Jer. 20:7)

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2–3 NIV)

It's a dangerous thing to no longer deeply crave fellowship with you, Jesus. It's a deceptive thing to enjoy but no longer actually need you. It's a deceitful thing to be satisfied with correct theology about you, without experiencing rich communion with you. It's a demonic thing to find our ultimate satisfaction in anyone or anything else but you.

The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Cor. 4:4)

You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.