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Quotes About Deception

If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.
~ Syed Basit Naqvi
Time is deceptive, it gives you an impression that its with you but passes away without your knowledge
~ Topsy Gift
Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right
~ they could also be deadly.
Isn't one man's truth another man's lie?
~ Amy Jarecki, Rise of a Legend
Do you get the irony?Who is now talking about, who ain't serious?Oh, we gonna do that and that and that and that?… Yeah, yeah You just wanna trick me one more time….
~ Deyth Banger
Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.
~ Dexter Palmer, Version Control
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
~ Charlie Pierce
No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
~ Dorothy Allison
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.
~ Dick Schaap
Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together." "No," I said. "No?" "We're, uh, not in West Virginia.
~ Richelle Mead
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.
~ Anais Nin
A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Was the reality quite what he had been telling himself it was?
~ Mary Balogh
Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos...
~ Mary Balogh
Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.
~ Mary Balogh
And while she had held him and opened to him and called his name, because he was Marius and the man she loved, he had merely been using her as almost any man would use a woman who was so obviously available.
~ Mary Balogh
Good God, why had someone not told him? Why had Harry not mentioned it? Oh, by the way, my sister is remaining here indefinitely to ruin our peace.
~ Mary Balogh
Even at the age of eighteen, he thought suddenly, she had been an expert in the wearing of masks. One would never have known that the sunny-natured girl had grown up in such a home.
~ Mary Balogh
Oh Christopher, she thought, burying her face in her hands again, why? Why did you have to turn out this way? Or why did you not show yourself in your true colors before I was foolish enough to love you?
~ Mary Balogh
And some people have the gift of speaking the truth and convincing their listeners that it is a lie.
~ Mary Balogh
is the epitome of unfairness that many people would choose the comfortable lie over the uncomfortable truth and, in this case, would brand you as the archvillain instead of him.
~ Mary Balogh
Los ojos suelen ser el punto débil de cualquier disfraz, ¿sabe usted? Porque el portador del mismo debe ver el mundo y debe dejarlos expuestos por muy bien que oculte el resto de su persona. Sin embargo, sus ojos son su disfraz... o al menos son la parte más importante. Me es imposible vislumbrar siquiera un trocito de su alma por mucho que los mire.
~ Mary Balogh