Quotes About Deception

She did not wish the girl to be beguiled by such a practiced and heartless charmer.

I shall always love you, he had said, and Elizabeth had believed him. She laughed harshly now . . . Forever did not last very long, she reflected.

Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.

Even when an individual tried to fake it, the eyes still echoed loss, love, fear, or hate.

everyone lies.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. —Ice Cube

Cassie, Griff told you not to ride. Griff told you not to talk about the baby to the point you don't know a thing about what's to come. Griff told you a woman was unclean when she was carryin' a child. Griff mortgaged all your family heirlooms without telling you so you could have a useless new silk dress every year. Excuse me for speakin' ill of the dead, Cass, but your husband wasn't very smart, was he?

Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.

The trouble with illusions... is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken from you

But there you are: the reasons for going to war might be a shameless hoax, but the war itself was real, and by God, America was in it!

Within himself, Tom Fisher smiles serenely. It's almost too easy. Promise these morons something they want. Let them believe in it. Then take it away. And tell them who's to blame.

Put ordinary shitheads in impressive uniforms, give them guns and permission to use them, they'll shoot anyone who threatens their illusions

I was tempted to tell my father the truth, but perhaps it was better to let him go on believing Vincent was depraved, a pervert of some kind, a child abuser. If Dad believed he'd invited a creature from myth and legend to cross his threshold, he'd have to rethink his entire concept of reality. I wasn't sure he was ready for that.

I was tempted to tell my father the truth, but perhaps it was better to let him go on believing that Vincent was depraved, a pervert of some kind, a child abuser. If Dad believed he'd invited a creature from myth and legend to cross his threshold, he'd have to rethink his entire concept of reality. I wasn't sure he was ready for that.

Mary Gaitskill

When boys get angry with each other, they just fight it out and it's all over. But girls are dirty. They pretend to be your friend and go behind your back.

Her mouth smiled, smiled hard, but her eyes did not smile, ever. Her eyes watched and looked for something they knew they'd never find.

Very little," Ash said honestly. "I'd believe very little you told me." "Because I'm a traitor, in your eyes?" "No," she said. "Because you're a traitor in your eyes.

I've plumb forgot where I am for the instant, which is how a good lie should take you. At the same time, I'm more where I was inside myself than before Daddy started talking, which is how lies can tell you the truth.

our strange cynicism about truth as a possibility has permitted us to accept all manner of bullshit

If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you.

I've plumb forgot where I am for an instant, which is how a good lie should take you.

Your small pieties and impenetrable, mostly unconscious poses invariably trip you up.

Bent Bender "Well, if God doesn't exist, who's laughing at us?" —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov One day Lecia rings me up. Tawdry, she says. An adjective meaning crude or trashy or otherwise unseemly, I say. Talk to me. Mother's sleeping with Harold, she says, meaning Daddy's pill-popping nurse, crashing of late in the spare room. Never happen, I say. That man has got to be gay. Happened, she says.