Quotes About Deception

Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

lying) it's really underdiagnosed as a cause of psychiatric disorder

With love, encouragement, and character intact, a human being can be resilient beyond imagining. What cannot be borne, however, is the absolute ruin produced by tragedy and deception.

Someone with experience knows that people are capable of deception and willing to deceive. That knowledge brings with it an arguably justified pessimism about human nature, personal and otherwise, but it also opens the door to another kind of faith in humanity: one based on courage, rather than naivete. I will trust you—I will extend my hand to you—despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me.

You shot heroin in the bathroom while I was disinfecting the kitchen. Didn't you?" "Of course not." He pulled on his gloves and led the way into the building. "I hatched from a pod and hid the real Jonathan under the floorboards." "You're much less creepy when you're pensive and focused. Just so you know.

Now I knew how women felt when they thought they were going to get a diamond ring and ended up with an onion ring

He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane. Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.

Most of my Spanish vocabulary consists of phrases like I didn't know that car was stolen, or I was home watching TV during the shooting, or That's not blood, it's molé sauce.

They're running the con on themselves.

Break their hearts and take their money , they have no power.

Hal Yakzuby le enseñó algo, no directamente, pero si indirectamente que los humanos quieren ser engañados. A veces tienen la verdad ante sus ojos y la ignoran, la desprecian, la desprecian, no la aceptan.

The devil has taken possession of everybody in Ilhéus. All they think about is money and bigness. They're on the road to hell. Things are going to start happening…

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385)

En esa foto personal e imaginaria, la dama blanca viste de negro y tiene las facciones duras y a la vez sensuales. Parece una asesina a sueldo, pero en realidad es una emperatriz provista de un puñal. Y resulta que ese puñal vengo a ser yo.

Ese árbol que ves allí —me dijo, señalando un eucalipto— es un cedro.

Era un asunto embrollado: el español era Topete, a quien en el cantón conocíamos como «Eligio», para no tener que decirle Eligio de Puta.

Si la posverdad existe, tendríamos que imaginarla no como el ámbito donde los poderosos mienten, y ni siquiera donde mienten de modo sistemático, sino aquel donde sus mentiras ya no incomodan a nadie y la distinción entre verdad y mentira se torna irrelevante.

a nadie parece importarle que la AFI, la Policía Federal y la PGR hayan mentido una y otra vez o que hayan tramado esa argamasa de verdades y ficciones que hemos llamado el montaje

Le mélange du vrai et du faux est énormément plus toxique que le faux pur. PAUL VALÉRY

Om te overleven moet je jezelf wijsmaken dat de werkelijkheid anders is dan-ie is. Dat lukt en je overleeft. Maar hoe kom je er dan nog achter wat die werkelijkheid was? En is?

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Progress is the hypocrisy in which vice is refined!

He can verify that axiom of demonographers, that the Evil One dupes all persons who give themselves, or are willing to give themselves, to him.

La verdad no se dice ¡Se hace! Lo único que se dice es la mentira.