Quotes About Deception

You mendacious sons of bitches," the mahout said

It was the autobiography of a man who could not face himself, an elaborate system of evasion and lies unredeemed by the artistic virtue of self-betrayal.

the demon virtues — patience, deception, quick hands, craftiness, an for the mistakes of others

I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them.

He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.

Nobody in this world is who they say they are. Nobody. Not when they're in their own room with the door shut and locked. And nobody knows anybody, no matter what they think... The best you can hope for is to know yourself. And sometimes when you do, when you see your true self, you have to turn away.

For every noble movement or advancement in the human endeavor across time, there were always betrayers who set everything a step back.

We want the truth, Detective. You are confusing that with what we choose to tell the public.

People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies.

There were elegantly made up women sitting on bus benches who were not really women and not really waiting for buses.

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

You know what they call a guy who switches sides in homicide? They call him a Jane Fonda, as in hanging with the North Vietnamese. You get it? It's crossing to the dark side.

It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.

Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime.

habérmela contado a mí primero, porque esto podría hacerte sonar como una especie de chiflado vengativo.

She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or

Everybody lies. Cops lie. Lawyers lie. Witnesses lie. The victims lie. A trial is a contest of lies. And everybody in the courtroom knows this. The judge knows this. Even the jury knows this. They come into the building knowing they will be lied to. They take their seats in the box and agree to be lied to.

Un juicio es un concurso de mentiras. Y en la sala todo el mundo lo sabe.

But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police's lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person.

he knew why, just as he knew that George Irving's death would have been written off as a suicide with Crate

the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. "Milton. What the—" "Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?" "I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, there are

night before. His appreciation for the game had dropped markedly in recent years. He used the newspaper section mostly as a blind so that he could hold it up and appear to be reading while he was actually looking at Rachel. Other than the longer hair, she had changed little since he had last been with her. Still vibrantly attractive with an intangible sense of damage about her. It was in the eyes. They weren't the hardened

Man is depicted again and again as embracing evil, as being the instigator of his own downfall.

I reminded myself of a simple truism—everybody lies