Quotes About Deception

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Pollock delighted in underhand work – it was not so different from being a lawyer

This, like all the other British communiqués, was completely untrue. After two years of war, the British government and its servants were finally learning to behave like cads.

C'est le destin de la ruse que de paraître trop simple à des savants trop naïfs

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?

This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.

People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.

How do you know you're not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: 'I like strong women.' If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because 'I like strong women' is code for: 'I hate strong women.

He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect.

Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder.

He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: they try to make it sound like you are the cool girl so you will bow to their wishes. Like a car salesman saying, how much do you want to pay for this beauty? When you didn't agree to buy it yet.

Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch.

Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.

No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda.

He Giving Treed me out of existence.