Quotes About Deception

When you're in the White House," Butterfield said, "everyone lies. You can sort of get feeling immune.

Trump is the perfect foil," he summarized. "He's the bad father, the terrible first husband, the boyfriend that fucked you over and wasted all those years, and [you] gave up your youth for, and then dumped you. And the terrible boss that grabbed you by the pussy all the time and demeaned you.

Cohn had witnessed this for over a year—denial when needed or useful or more convenient. "He's a professional liar," Cohn told an associate.

Ryan began, on his own, to research how to deal with someone who is amoral and transactional.

He's a professional liar.

Cohn realized again what he had said before to others about the president: "He's a professional liar.

The president has no moral compass," Mattis replied. The bluntness should have shocked Coats, but he'd arrived at his own hard truths about the most powerful man in the world. "True," Coats agreed. "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.

He was just making it up.

I will not leave my people. 17But those who trust in idols, who say to their statues, 'You are our gods' will be rejected in disgrace.

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman, she uses it for luring. And why for luring? She waves it and she nods and winks and lures young men to come and be killed, then she sends famine and plague. That's what it is. And you went and believed her. You thought it was a flag. You thought it was: Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.

hat is what makes for the horror of life all around. How does it stun you—with thunder and lightning? No, with sidelong glances and whispers of calumny. It's all trickery and ambiguity. A single thread is like a spiderweb, pull and it's gone, but try to free yourself and you get even more entangled.

Stalin } took care always to say the opposite of what he did, and do the opposite of what he said.

The bluffer should, of course, love anything that sounds counter-intuitive, for it gives them the opportunity to show that what appears counterintuitive is actually counter-counter-intuitive: or, to cut a long word short, intuitive.)

Un hombre con un chándal blanco abrió la cabina y se guardó la propina que, aunque se supone que se dan para beber, le serviría para comer, porque tenía cara de mentiroso

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

Take it from the former pastor: The true believers are the ones who'll burn you the worst.

they can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at their core, the whole goal of the damn thing is to undo you.

Immaculate Deception.

Intelligence. Cunning. Secrecy. These are the tools of war.

Bullshit. I don't know how, but somehow you followed us." "I will admit, Agent Harvath, that when you logged on to the web site I gave you for the surveillance photos of Marcel