Quotes About Deception

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

But everything's Horror, isn't it? Sometimes you just can't see the blood

He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all;

If they's interested, they wouldn't believe it. If they believed it, they'd arrest me.

There are two types of liers...those that lie to others, and those that lie to themselves.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.

Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other. And his shadow, which followed him closely and knew all of his secrets, might have said he was both.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

Be aware that the expectation of possible awakening sometimes leads to a false awakening in which you dream of waking.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.

Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.

Do not be afraid, my lady," soothed Durwin. " he is not so terrible that he cannot be faced. Evil always misrepresents itself.

Anyone who tells you he knows the mind of God is selling something. You can take that to the bank.

I got my lawyer to visit me in the jail. He couldn't believe the bruising over my body, so he pulled the governor and asked why I was covered in marks. The governor said to my lawyer that it was 'self-inflicted' and was caused by my 'running into walls'. That part was disproved because walls don't leave footprints all over your body.

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

I had no reason to feel wary of Huntley.There were no warning signs or anything like that. Little did I know there were allegations against Huntley going back as far as August 1995 ....

Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.

I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.