Quotes About Deception

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

It is easier to see who is real and truthful and who is pretending for nefarious reasons. While it can feel lonely to realize this piece of life, it is important to spend this alone time, to find a deeper place within oneself.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

One of the gentleman guests chuckled. "Do you think the mother made up the story out of whole cloth?

I'm sorry about the way it looks. . . People often said that when they let him in, as if he were a health inspector instead of a sheriff. He had once gone to arrest a murderer who had let him in with just those words. The only remorse she'd shown, in fact.

That evening I went over to Metro and found this long platinum-blond wig. I took it home and styled it, with curls and ringlets at the nape of the neck. The next day I brought it to Bette. She put it on, looked in the mirror, and in a loud voice said, 'It's the NUTS! I love it!' She wore it through the entire picture, and she never knew that it was an old wig of Joan's—one that Miss Crawford wore in an early M-G-M movie." Norma

We'd known enough girls jilted by Americans promising marriage and plane tickets. Two girls in my neighborhood had babies by men who had returned to the United States and left false addresses. The faces of their mixed-race kids declared their humiliation to everyone.

If we say he was a dictator, then we will have to admit that we were duped.

Just because you don't believe me doesn't make me a liar.

His pretty face could not make up for the fact that he had the IQ of a dead houseplant and the emotional range of a frozen pea.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Before her body is found floating in her Jacuzzi, publicist to the stars Lindsey Alexander had few friends, but plenty of lovers. To her ex-friend Claudia, she was a ruthless, backstabbing manipulator. But even Claudia is shocked by Lindsey's startling final note: It was fun while it lasted.

Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.

had shown a light on his little evil through the fog of his rationalizations.

The victor will not be asked later whether he had spoken the truth or not. —Adolf Hitler

Photoshop. The dog tag could

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Liars come in all shapes and sizes, young lady. Sometimes folks think they are telling a lie to make things better. But then they are telling two lies. One to another person and one to themselves" -Mr. Doyle

The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The one thing we all do well is fool ourselves.

That's a shitty thing to do. It's almost catlike in its evilness." "See, your problem is you underestimate dogs. There's a reason many of us are let up on the couch, while they keep y'all in a zoo.

I've found it's never the animals you have to worry about, Miki. It's the humans.

if I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down." "Why not?" "Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.

I have iced tea, dear. Or beer?" "Maybe a saucer of milk?" Gwen and Alla looked over at Lock and he immediately pointed at his father. "It was him," he lied.