Quotes About Deception

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

He shouldn't be telling her this. He's using information from my life to give himself power. I loathe that.

I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.

we can be made to look very cold-blooded, to you.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

The devil will try any trick to keep God's people out of spiritual warfare... he has everything to gain by it.

When we do not listen to the lies that demons whisper into our ears, they will attack us with lies in the mouths of men.

A gun is a liar's weapon

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

At the time, BT wasn't yet known as the bank where—according to one infamous derivatives salesman—they "lure people into that calm and then just totally fuck 'em." To most of the world, this was still a secret. I had assumed that BT was in business to make as much money as it could. Had I known BT's approach to clients was to "totally fuck 'em," my favorable view of the bank might have changed. Perhaps it would have improved.

It wasn't clear what "emerging" meant, or how these markets might "emerge." Still, it sounded awfully good, and it helped cloud the fact that the emerging bond an investor bought actually was a Peruvian loan that hadn't paid any interest since the 1800s.

Indeed, what was remarkable about this scheme wasn't Ponzi. It was his victims. If people really would believe that a 34-year-old ex-bank clerk who had just served three years in prison for check kiting was capable of doubling their money in six months by exchanging millions of 10 cent postal coupons from Europe – well, if they would believe that, then they would believe anything.

Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, in a way, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Some books are judged by their covers, it seems, and in my uniform I was an immediate best seller.

Der vermummte Herr Warum prahlen Sie denn dann mit Erhabenheit?! – Sie wissen doch, daß das Humbug ist – saure Trauben! Warum lügen Sie geflissentlich, Sie – Hirngespinst! – – Wenn Ihnen eine so schätzenswerte Wohltat damit geschieht, so bleiben Sie meinetwegen. Aber hüten Sie sich vor Windbeuteleien, lieber Freund – und lassen Sie mir bitte Ihre Leichenhand aus dem Spiel.

We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.