Quotes About Deception

There is nothing so inhuman as the mask of the good servant.

Soldier Island, eh? There's a fly in the ointment.

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us

But you know, my dear," said Poirot gently, "people are never like what you remember them. You make them as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make than far more so than they actually were.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically.

We are all strangers to one another and that, in those circumstances, nobody can be exonerated without fullest proof. There is, as I have said, a devil among us.

Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr. Armstrong, Anthony Marston, old Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, C.M.G., D.S.O. Manservant and wife: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.

The man obviously wanted to tell him something - and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.

They won't know. Who's to tell them? Nobody knows but you." It was the second time she had said those words. At this second repetition her voice changed a little

So she's a liar too!" I said. "The cool way she answered you this morning about these same letters!

Tak satu pun yang lebih berbahaya daripada memeras seseorang yang telah membunuh.

That's why you often find that the author of anonymous letters is the last person in the place to be suspected. Some quiet inoffensive little soul who apparently can't say Bo to a goose—all sweetness and Christian meekness on the outside—and seething with all the fury of hell underneath!

Women were the devil when they got their knife into you.

His whole personality seemed to change. The handsome, vigorous young man turned into a rat-like creature with furtive eyes looking for a way of escape and finding none…

The typists might have been so many blackbeetles.

Poor Emily was never murdered until he came along.

Tapi, panggung bukanlah sebuah kenyataan

Murder is easy,if no one suspects you

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Lord save me from the minds that are plagued by good intentions

People tend to deny their personal truths because it makes them feel ugly. People will do anything to feel beautiful, even if it means having to lie to themselves

To deny expression is a form of lying and a mode of suicide.

I think the truth is…you fell for a face and a body and then put the person inside you wanted to find there.