Quotes About Deception

Aclararé lo que entiendo por «mentira», que no sólo es tergiversar a sabiendas aquello que consideramos verdad, sino pricipalmente escamoteársela a quienes tienen derecho a esperarla de nosotros sobre determinados asuntos.

In order for the reader to believe the lies I'll tell, first I need to build a normal, everyday, believable environment ... Say, a scenario or, rather, a set design. And then, gradually, we could say surreptitiously, I introduce later the fact or facts that could never happen in real life.

ley es para tranquilizarles la conciencia a los del Congreso, que creen que están trabajando;

A machete, con los que trajeron del campo cuando llegaron huyendo dizque "de la violencia" y fundaron estas comunas sobre terrenos ajenos, robándoselos, como barrios piratas o de invasión. De "la violencia"... ¡Mentira! La violencia eran ellos. Ellos la trajeron, conlos machetes. De lo que venían huyendo era de sí mismos.

La humanidad necesita para vivir mitos y mentiras. Si uno ve la verdad escueta se pega un tiro.

La palabra se inventó para mentir, en ella no cabe la verdad. El hombre es un mentiroso nato y la realidad no se puede apresar con palabras, así como un río no se puede apresar con las manos. El río fluye y se va, y nosotros con él.

I think a lie with a purpose is wan iv th' worst kind an' th' mos' profitable.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

It is a case not of the Emperor's but of the Everyman's New Clothes.

And I will pretend That I don't know of your sins Until you are ready to confess But all the time, all the time, I'll know And you can use my skin To bury secrets in.

She'd braced herself for a hard, plundering, ravaging assault, but the sweetness of his caress was butterfly-soft, and so beguiling that she ached for him to deepen the pressure. Her hands lifted and settled on the incredible warmth of his chest as she parted her lips and tilted her head to grant him easier access. She was as guilty of misjudging Cullen as everyone else was—he looked every inch an outlaw, but he was kissing her like an angel. A fallen, dangerously beautiful angel.

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

Besides the neutral expression she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck.

These bandits would tax their own military to buy the votes of morons.

You don't really play poker with your cards up.

You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies

He's] a rat. A first-class double-A-battery-run rat.

God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that I suffered from diabetes of the soul.

Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

I think his lies hurt most of all because they stripped down the possibility of belief. I guess that's what betrayal does.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

The devil, through his ordinary action, which is temptation, and through his extraordinary action, which is the subject of this book, tries to destroy the confidence of each man and each woman to love and to be loved.