Quotes About Deception

They'd been played. By a tuba !

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

For something to be funny, it has to have an element of truth: lies are not funny. So

You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested, "Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

I mistrust mountebanks—especially of the female variety.

other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor's clothes, don't ask the tailors.

Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.

Today is Casanova's seventy-third birthday, and he is already suffering from the debilitating painful bladder disorder which will claim his life in two months' time. Considering how many deceived husbands and women must have wanted to kill him during the course of his long life it is ironic that he is destined to die of a urinary infection in the safety of his own bed.

Rumors are easy to plant; they grow like no other crop.

I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night. So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.

Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?

I'd really done it now. I'd come to camp planning to be special. Now I was special. I was probably the biggest liar that Camp Pinetree had ever seen.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception.

Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.

Der Projektkreislauf ist eine Falle der man nicht leicht entkommt. Er verwandelt auch die Endprojektierung des Daseins in ein neues Projekt. Die Schaffbarkeit von 'es' ist die Grundlüge der modernen Lebens und Arbeitswelt, ein kollektiver Selbstbetrug inzwischen lautlos zerplatzt.

the propaganda was so pervasive and truth so distorted that many found themselves uncertain about what to believe.

And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly. "Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out.

Send out the whisper," Ramil told Melletin, "starting with all Brigardians in the pens. Tell them the Dark Prince who escaped Fergox has come to lead them--" "But you're in the cage with them," Melletin pointed out. Ramil shrugged. "They don't need to know that. Keep it vague and majestic.

On creating a false identity for Pheobe- "A widow," Ava insisted. "How did her husband die?" Greer asked. "I hardly know," Ava said with a shrug as she rocked Jonathan in her arms. "How do men typically die? A fall from a horse or some such thing." "I scarcely believe scores of men are falling to their deaths from their saddles," Greer said drily.

Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda… —insistió Mercedes. —¿Qué dices? —le preguntó Bruno que no entendía lo que su amiga le decía. —Nada, es un refrán español, que quiere decir que no importa que uno se ponga un buen traje y se haga pasar por un señor, porque siempre se le notará de dónde viene. —¡Mercedes! —El tono de Hans era de reproche.