Quotes About Deception

A crow is no whiter for being washed.

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

Wer einen großen Skandal verheimlichen will, inszeniert am besten einen kleinen.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

I have wound my way through a jungle of lies and am on the track of only half the truth. In China, nobody gets to know the whole truth.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.

Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.

Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.

Satan doesn't win when he can get us to cross the line but when he convinces us that there is no way back.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Uma vez mortos, os segredos que tão cuidadosamente acalentámos, quais plantas carnívoras no meio de um jardim florido, ficam com frequência expostos à luz, onde têm oportunidade de se desenvolver. Cultivados pela verdade, fertilizados pelo rumor, florescem, mas as flores são tóxicas para quem quiser conhecê-las mais de perto e cheirar o seu perfume venenoso

the dumber that people think you are, the more surprised they will be when you kill them..."

We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even manage to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die." "Cheerful thought.

A lie twice believed is self-deceived.