Quotes About Deception

nadie puede creer en la noble sonrisa de una cabeza degollada.

Ya estaba preparando la huida, la muy cerda. Bien lo decía el proverbio chino: cuando la pobreza entra por la puerta, el amor salta por la ventana.

Como de costumbre, las declaraciones de los políticos eran irrelevantes: lo que de verdad importaba eran los detalles ocultos tras bambalinas, los papelillos reveladores que dejaban a la vista por descuido.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get it's pants on.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

It is also evident that many Germans did not want to know about what was being done to the Jews. Either it did not interest them or they wanted to suppress it from their consciousness. All too often, they were too involved in their own lives and worries, and they became blind to the sufferings of the Jews and deceived themselves about their fate.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.

If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.

For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle.

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

Hemos sido engañados a creer que acumular la sabiduría del mundo nos hace sabios, cuando realmente quizás sólo nos llene de prejuicios.

To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real is to know it's all phony and to create, with a generous heart, your own sweet ruse.

We know the danger of this game, having both made the mistake of playing a similar game with our other friends, in which you tell three terrible stories about yourself, but two of them are lies. Your friends have to figure out the true one. It's like that Meat Loaf song, but when you think of that title, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," what you really mean to say here, is: "One of These Three Is Awful.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.

Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive