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Quotes About Deception

battle is coming, Fireheart. Beware a warrior you cannot trust.
~ Erin Hunter
Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow.
~ Erin Hunter
somehow Tigerclaw had tried to murder him. This time he had failed. But what about next time? Fireheart's tired brain shied away from what was all too obvious. Next time, Tigerclaw would make sure he did not fail.
~ Erin Hunter
Our real mother lied, too," Hollyleaf pointed out, a snarl creeping into her voice. "Whoever she was .
~ Erin Hunter
Adder! It bit me! Help!" Mapleshade let out a hiss. "Like you helped my kits? Never!
~ Erin Hunter
Now Ashfur had an even more powerful weapon to use against Squirrelflight:
~ Erin Hunter
Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I told you just what she was—all velvet and claws!
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
~ Ernest Becker
He is capable of any crime, from reviling the Classics to diverting water courses.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith
I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.
~ Ernest Cline
So I swallowed all of the dark ages nonsense they fed me. Some time passed. I grew up a little, and I gradually began to figure out that pretty much everyone had been lying to me about pretty much everything since the moment I emerged from my mother's womb. This was an alarming revelation. It gave me trust issues later in life.
~ Ernest Cline
Reality didn't feel any more real than the OASIS had just felt to me. My senses couldn't discern between the two.
~ Ernest Cline
That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Oh, and by the way... there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.
~ Ernest Cline
But over the past few months, I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in a cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.
~ Ernest Cline
Aquello me hizo preguntarme si Hawking también habría participado en la gran mentira de la ADT. ¿Y Neil deGrasse Tyson? Si Carl Sagan estaba metido en el ajo, era probable que otros científicos importantes también.
~ Ernest Cline
because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.
~ Ernest Cline
played it over and over, each time mouthing the words to the single lyric spoken in the middle of the song: "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
~ Ernest Cline
The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
~ Ernest Cline
as had the graffiti spray-painted in red on one of the corridor walls: THE CAKE IS A LIE.
~ Ernest Cline
That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
~ Ernest Cline
She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn't hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.
~ Ernest Cline
Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l'agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d'illusions.
~ Ernest Cline
Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.
~ Ernest Cline