Quotes About Deception

the wood. The king was grieved, but he never thought that the queen had done this wicked deed. He took the girl

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.

You know as well as I do that your voice is just pandering to a biased audience. No matter how twisted your games, the truth will always unravel them.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.

Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

Professional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent.

Ash turned out to be a young man half a head taller than me, broad of shoulder, clear of eye, noble of brow and empty of thought.

Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer?" I asked. "Yup," said Leslie. "Just checking," I said. So we spent the rest of the afternoon bearing false witness in separate interview rooms.

there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.

I don't like it, Peter," he'd said after the morning briefing. "It's all too complicated. Chorley has proved masterful at deceiving us in the past

Some words are wind. Some words are treason.

Don't you understand? We're fighting an election here and the first rule is you can say anything you like, then deny you said it, then say it again.

My my, the cruelest lies are often told without a word My my, the kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

People, I want to tell you Just how your friend will do They will wait to get your secret And dig a pit for you

but a lot o' molls and a lot of sucker guys. Them? Say, they never learn no better. Tough guys ain't no different from soft guys, see? They all fall for the dames just as hard and just as worse. There's many a good guy in this place that's been gave a tumble by them, see?