Quotes About Deception

Murder is blue

folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme.

lies and love rarely went together, and never for long.

Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the end, even if you had a pretty good idea what the end was going to be, and he was so full of shit he squeaked.

In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.

the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside.

La ficción es la verdad que se encuentra dentro de la mentira y la verdad de esta ficción es muy sencilla: La magia existe.

What kind of man breaks his vows, destroys lives, and violates the laws of God for false love and brief pleasures?

When everything looks perfectly right about a person, there's usually something significantly wrong. They were probably in their early thirties, that awkward age when people still believe they matter and that life is going to go their way.

We can "pose" and "put on" for a stranger or an associate. We can pretend. And for a while we can get by with it—at least in public. We might even deceive ourselves. Yet I believe that most of us know the truth of what we really are inside; and I think many of those we live with and work with do as well.

A lie is any communication with intent to deceive

My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do—even using so-called good human relations techniques—will be perceived as manipulative.

Integrity also means avoiding any communication that is deceptive, full of guile, or beneath the dignity of people. "A lie is any communication with intent to deceive," according to one definition of the word. Whether we communicate with words or behavior, if we have integrity, our intent cannot be to deceive.

You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out.

What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do?

it is the nature of avarice to mislead.

It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts.

All that Desecration—ravage and rapine—for a false hope.

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled.

Lies have short legs.

Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated. The masses are gullible.