Quotes About Deception

because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.

Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming'?

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.

Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he''s already taken your secret weapon."

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —GALATIANS 6:7

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

When people got into the habit of lying, they came to depend on it as a means of sliding easily through life.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Hanley said. "We've replaced them with corrected versions." "Corrected?" Cooper asked. "Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

reaction. A uniform did not signify safety. Usually, in his experience, it was quite the opposite.

So he was FN-2187, well on his way to becoming the ideal First Order stormtrooper. That was what everyone thought, at least. Except FN-2187 himself.

How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?

These aren't

Red hair framed a face with a freckled nose, and her blue eyes had thick lashes like the undulating fringe of a sea anemone. But to Lara, the kind of beauty Shelly possessed was like that of nightshade berries. They appear to be delicious but are actually dangerous.

The lie would grow into a disease. Cancer, probably.

It isn't Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.

mean, not for the same reason," Birdy

Since Shelly Knotek came into his life, Ron's world was now a black hole of money trouble, legal trouble, and family trouble. And Shelly was right there, stirring the pot, making things worse and worse.

Kathy's death, and what he'd done to get rid of her body, was an anvil pitched on Dave's shoulders. He knew he could never erase what he'd done. He thought of how Kathy's family would always wonder where she'd gone, and if she was happy.

She used to chop up bits of glass and put them in the bottom of [the kids'] boots and shoes

We were never anything more than something she could manipulate

Ben Franklin once said three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.