Quotes About Deception

No, killing a man is fairly easy. It is killing him and not getting caught that makes it difficult.

Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.

Tal decided that fashion was a conspiracy created by tailors to bilk the nobility out of excess gold.

And evil is most adept at seeing what it wants to see. That's its weakness. It doesn't anticipate the possibility of failure.

why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?' 'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.

He had been gorgeous to look at and deadly to live with.

I'm not arguing here that women and children don't lie. Men, women, and children lie, but the latter two are not disproportionately prone to doing so, and men—a category that includes used-car salesmen, Baron von Münchhausen, and Richard Nixon—are not possessed of special veracity.

The Eagles's 1977 hit "Hotel California" was a flawless piece of craftsmanship, but it was about upscale fatalism and gilded cages, about the hotel you can check into but never leave. It sounded as though Joan Didion had started writing lyrics. As

Opposition is often illusory.

R]apists tend to lie, a lot...

I didn't like crab. Not at all. My stepmother had tricked my into eating a crab sandwich once in a cafe in Cromer, told me it was tuna. I'd never forgiven her.

The great skill in lying is not lying, you'd say. Just leaving things out. Keeping everything as close to the actual truth as possible. Nothing overblown.

far as I knew. Never thought one way or the other when Mama used to take her "naps" in the middle of Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. Never said to myself, Mama's not napping, she's passed-out drunk. Never even questioned

The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds and sword slashes, but the fingers of his right hand clasped the railing and had to be cut off before he fell to the ground, where the fingers of his left hand clutched the grass.

Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

One of Dalziel's dicta for police and public was, if you can't be honest you'd better be fucking clever.

Alors l'amour est une supercherie ? - Qu'en penses tu ? - Je pense que rien de ce que tu m'as montré ne tient contre ce que j'ai à te dire. - Qu'as tu à me dire ? - Je t'aime, dit Viviane.

LAZINESS WILL STOP your progress in your spiritual practice. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

Bernays set various goals: convince the American people of the Communist presence in Guatemala; convince members of Congress the issue is a winner; convince the CIA, which can actually do something on the ground, it's time to act. Bernays wouldn't make the world better for bananas, he would make the world better for American politicians, who would make the world better for the CIA, which would make the world better for bananas. Indirection.

For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.

Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he's ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he's deceiving?

Escucha!—gritó a través del espacio que nos separaba—. ¿Este mundo? ¿Y todo lo que hay en él? ¡Ilusiones, Richard! ¡Todo en él son ilusiones! ¿Lo entiendes?

Vielleicht gab es nicht mal einen Regenbogen, geschweige denn einen Topf mit Gold.

Atención -decía Bobby Thompson-. Éste es uno de los lobos que camina entre ustedes.