Quotes About Deception

He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.

Dear Mr Wormold, surely you realize there are people who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged by the idea. One never tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement.

This is European duplicity, Pyle. We have to make up for our lack of supplies.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

It wouldn't have done to cable the details of his true career, that before he died he had been responsible for at least fifty deaths

I didn't mean that,' Pyle said. 'When you are in love you want to play the game, that's all.' That's true, I thought, but not as he innocently means it. To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two. Perhaps I was no longer in love but I remembered.

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

Letters could lie all right, but they made the lie permanent. They lay as evidence against you: they made you meaner than the spoken word.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two. Perhaps I was no longer in love but I remembered.

almost fanatically, began to see another man, and although she still clung on to Williams for his money, it was quite obvious to him that she didn't love him

When you are strong, appear weak. The first warmaster

A secret face only the dreamers can see. Awake, you can't see the truths beneath the surface.

I have no trouble with my enemies, Miss Vivar. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my so-called allies, my damned allies, they're the ones who keep me walking the floors at night. - Warmaster Horus

No querida, la ignorancia y el miedo crean a los dioses, el entusiasmo y el engaño los adornan, y la debilidad humana rinde les rinde culto.

You know as well as I that this doesn't end with kill teams or assassins or a pre-emptive strike thousands of light years from Terra. It ends with me looking into my father's eyes, my hands around His neck, and showing Him everything he loves burned to ash by His lies.

A complete fiction! Yet something that was clearly and completely fiction could also contain—this was the nub and the mystery of the matter—truth.

Satan cannot create anything; he can only pervert the good creation of God into something sinful.

Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past training and lives. Our stories, our lives, will go on. I refuse to allow that love to die, just because it was never real.

Washington eats truth and shits spin.

The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.

Truth is a hunter. Truth is what kills you when you give up the lies.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Marrying someone you don't love is a sin. Because it sends both of you to hell. It destroys the other person first, but in the end it gets you, too. The magnitude of what you've done, the damage you've caused by forcing you both to live a lie.