Quotes About Deception

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor Dostoevsky

He was the worst kind of liar, the kind who took hearts as hostages and broke them with impunity.

Perhaps Jamie hadn't meant to teach her to bear up under unbearable pain, but he had shown her that appearances were everything, and illusion was a powerful tool.

She had known a love as intense as the brightest star, and a betrayal deeper than the blackest void in space.

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

Hard? Yeah, especially when they don't tell people their treatment might be bullshit.

This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children's story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mistress that screwed the husband that ignored the wife who lived in the house that Jack built....

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.

All magicians lie and this one more than most

the more apparatus a magician carries about with him — coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth — the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be!

Pero los sueños atraviesan los muros de piedra, iluminan las habitaciones vacías y oscurecen las iluminadas, y los personajes que intervienen en el sueño entran y salen a placer, burlándose de los cerrojos.

Boating, my dear Mrs. Bedel, is the dullest of all things; don't you think so? Because a boat looks very pretty from the shore, we fancy that the shore must look very pretty from a boat; and when we try it, we find we have only got down into a pit and can see nothing rightly. For my part, I hate boating and I hate the water...

the wicked woman's son was evidently making love to the girl. Both were standing by the old window-seat

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference ' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

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After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years. So, you see, children, the Bible clearly teaches us you can never trust an employer.

It was best not to ask too many questions of the Ferrets and Weasels of this world. There was less to deny when the headhunters put you on a polygraph.

Charm. The most insidious weapon in all the human armoury.

Ever seen the old conjurer's trick of a lady sawn in half? There's a strong aroma of sawn lady about this...don't you smell it?

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.