Quotes About Deception

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Through your rags I see your vanity.

They give you the semblance of success, I give you the reality...

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.

This makes Satan not only father of lies, but father of all so-called Illuminati or "enlightened ones" peddling freedom and salvation through science rather than through the Redeemer who tells us, "Without Me, you can do nothing!" (John 15:5).

Poets tell many lies.

A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.

Do not disclose ur secret weapon to ur enemy before you use' em

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Tutto cospirava contro di lui, tutto puntava alla sua sconfitta. Premette il corpo contro le sbarre, stanco fino al midollo. Stanco di nascondersi e vivere di sotterfugi, stanco di essere preso in giro dalla fortuna. Stanco di preoccuparsi, di prendere decisioni, di essere responsabile, di essere costretto a resistere. Stanco di vedersi sottrarre le cose. Stanco della tristezza che aveva nel cuore.

Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

You know how I feel about Occam's Razor. The simplest answer isn't usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.' 'You ought to launch your own theory: Occam's Beard, you could call it.

Wall of lies?' Proust muttered. 'Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

But maybe it was true, and the lie was the way he made his voice sound when he said it.

Wouldn't it be simply marvellous if he were to hang for his lies and calumnies against me--the very fate he had in mind for me?

If you ask for a memory and they tell you a story, they're lying

Let us stay in this room forever and never open the door. We can tell ourselves the lie that all is well and that all the harm that's been done can be undone. [...] Please, nobody say a single word. Please let me go on believing it for as long as I possibly can.

Jacinda, join us. We're grilling on the back deck." "Dad, I don't think-" "I would love that," I lie. Eating with Will's dad ranks right up there with having my teeth drilled, but I have to get inside.

I am what everyone always thought. A killer.

Truth is the first casualty of war.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.