Quotes About Deception

Ich war gerade nahe daran, zu erkennen, daß man jeden durchschauen kann, wenn man einen Knüppel oder Schraubenzieher hat, der groß genug ist.

And how much was in this fabled wallet?" "About two hundred and fifty dollars." "Baldheaded Jaysus, and I bet you got it all in your pockets, too.

Die Definition eines Arschlochs ist ein Mensch, der nicht glaubt, was er sieht.

Rand Foxworth hat mir erzählt, er hätte die Grippe, aber Foxworth lügt so, wie alte Leute ficken.

So one might say that there was a second conspiracy to make it look like there was no conspiracy at first; and directed by a man who was apparently a major player in both!

Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin.

You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.

Her garbage had lied to me.

I will tell you. This place stinks. This isn't iDEATH at all. This is just a figment of your imagination. All of you guys here are just a bunch of clucks, doing clucky things at your clucky iDEATH.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Most guys will walk into a marriage thinking... Well I just did what I was always told to do... and I said I do. And I was a stand up guy. But I don't understand why she was fucking her Boss.

For example, if (as Dawkins argues) deceit is fundamental in animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray—by the subtle signs of self-knowledge—the deception being practiced.

its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.

Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception.

I, like you, see through all the smoke and mirrors, but come on, guys, think of the poor dears who can't handle the truth!

God, in the sense defined, is a delusion; and, as later chapters will show, a pernicious delusion.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

All men were liars and he was no doubt no different—only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound.

As the cards fluttered to earth, as everyone's hand was revealed as worthless, as every point won was shown to be a pointless charade, she would tell them how wonderful this other man was, and how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too. But instead she watched as Harry Robertson played the right bower, and he and Keith, who always played as partners, won the hand.

Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us.

She always preferred strong lies to weak truths

intampina cu un zambet aproape tot ce spuneau ceilalti, in parte fiindca, in tinerete, descoperise ca asta ii usura drumul in viata, in parte fiindca era o masca, iar el gasea o mare placere in a-i insela pe ceilalti, castigandu-le increderea, convingandu-i ca n-au de ce sa se teama de el. Ca si tiganii, folosea mai multe masti: a vorbirii, a comportamentului, a personalitatii. Pentru ca, pe dedesubt, sa ramana el insusi.

Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves from great, panicking pain.