Quotes About Deception

He walked to the grandfather clock and pretended to check the time on his watch, when he wanted to grab the poker next to the grate and smash everything in the room. The children they were going to have. The life they were going to share. Everything slashed and burned in a vicious assault by reality. And her, oblivious to his pain, throwing away their happiness as if it were last week's bread.

She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face.

sincere. "I thought you wouldn't want anything to do with me once the sun rose." "You were right. I wouldn't have—if only I knew. And that was why you hid it from me, wasn't it? You wanted to preserve an illusion. You knew I wouldn't touch Verity Durant with a ten-foot pole, so you didn't give me a chance to repudiate her. Then you took that illusion home and left me to pick up the pieces.

The woman was a holy terror: the sweetest face, the pillowiest bosom, and a perspicacity that stripped a man naked in seconds.

Somehow he couldn't believe that this was it, that their story would end with such wretchedness, as if Hansel and Gretel had become the witch's dinner after all, or Sleeping Beauty's prince a pile of gnawed bones in the Enchanted Forest.

You pass your photo through Photoshop and then others go photo shopping.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

If you want to spot a liar, just remember that concealing the truth is like swallowing a slow-acting poison. It might take a while, but it will get them in the end. —VICTOR FLEMMING I

Knowing the same tricks a con man knows is the best way to protect yourself from him. -Naru

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Words were made only for babblers, women, and lawyers. Like Bismarck once said: "Words were given to us to hide our thoughts.

I can't stand looking at those nasty, smiling, yes-men. They'll say yes to an August snowstorm and agree to fish growing on a cherry tree. If I run into someone like that, I just want to smear honey all over him and let the bees have a picnic.

There's an old saying, you know, that if you scratch a secret, you'll find a thief.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Glancing back over his shoulder seemed to be habit, for Touch had noticed him do it before, as if the man thought someone might be following him. "Stranger, what did you say your name was?" asked the blacksmith. "I didn't," answered the thief. In fact, he had, but he changed his name more often than his stockings, and now he couldn't remember what name he'd bestowed upon himself.

A Conspiracy is like an Iceberg........there is a lot more to it than what meets the eye

The most vulnerable moment for your enemy is when they are thinking that everything is going according to plan.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but they can surely mislead a right.

I never lie!" her aunt said. 'I merely make the truth what it hopes to be.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.