Quotes About Deception

Después de todo pienso que entonces, en febrero de 1933, no se puede tomar a mal el hecho de que la mayoría de alemanes se creyera la teoría del incendio comunista. Lo que sí se les puede reprochar, y en lo que consiste su primera y terrible debilidad de carácter colectivo durante la época nazi, es que después de aquello el asunto quedó solucionado.

La población, en definitiva, debía acostumbrarse a vitorear y a ponerse en pie aunque no tuviese ningún motivo real para ello. A su vez, esto fue razón suficiente para que –¡psst!–, todos los días y todas las noches por medio de látigos de acero y taladros percutores se causara la muerte de quienes no participaban con bastante energía. Así que vitoreemos y ululemos con los lobos, heil, heil! Además se le acababa cogiendo el gusto.

Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.

Ginzo inclined his head and, without uttering a single word, returned to his room in the main house. For a while he just stood there thinking, but eventually he uttered a single sentence: "That man's lying." With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI. He addressed it to his own wife, then set out for the K—town post office.

Why is it that all men like to lie?

Whole world was nothing but a big rattrap. It set baits for people by offering riches and joys, shelter and food, heat and clothing exactly as the rattrap offered cheese and pork. As soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, the rattrap closed in on him, and then everything came to an end.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

She honestly didn't know what was worse: living her life in the dream world, or living in a world where everyone lied to her.

The hiding place is believed to contain the Crown of All Things," said Lermont. "Sounds tempting, doesn't it? But somehow I think that the Crown of All Things is really the End of All Things." Semyon

Virtually everyone knows that Aristotle sometimes lies.

A good way to get inside an opponent's head in a water balloon fight: catch a balloon that is thrown at you, untie it, and then drink it.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Besides, there was no honor in betraying a loyal friend.

I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

I'm like a moth that flew into your web of its own accord. I'm dreaming of the day you'll devour me... But you just give me sweet nectar so I won't die. Then, one day, an adorable butterfly gets caught in your web. And right in front of my eyes, you devour her with relish. When I've seen this for myself, I can finally be free...

Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.

I believe that modernism itself is based on an error, an error in the understanding of who man is, an error in under- standing the nature of reality both metacosmic and cosmic. Modernism is based on an enormous deception, which is leading us to perdition and destroying the world.

ACCLAIM FOR "DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW

Trust you? Rue--trust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in Darkfrith. I can't--I don't know how to fix that. I don't know how to mend it. Tell me." He took a step toward her. "Tell me, and I'll do it.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

There are many false prophets (and false profits) out there, and all kinds of embarrassing things being done in the name of God.