Quotes About Deception

You live in a world of illusion Where everything's peaches and cream We all face a scarlet conclusion But we spend our time in a dream

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

HIstory collects secrets like politicians collect lies.

Everybody cheats. I just didn't know.

their minds and their actions to some specific idea, tradition, or "mark" that comes from the beast. They will be marked in their minds. Yet, God's true people will detect this deception because His name is written in their foreheads.

He wasn't what he was supposed to be. He was an imposter: a boy who'd chosen this place, and at that moment, to impersonate a man.

There may be strength in numbers, but not necessarily truth.

As we locked the front door behind us, she said, "How do you keep getting in without my knowing it? Did Jill give you a key without mentioning it to me?" "Trade secret," I said. "What trade is that? Cat burglar?" "Yes, although I prefer the technical term." "What's that?" "Music promoter.

I have a clever and devious plan.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. —Lyman Beecher

He thinks I will hit him. Strike him, with a large stick. Foolish mule. Oh no, I am much more cunning. I will surprise him with kindness… until he grows calm and dispenses with all watchfulness, and then… ha! I shall punch him in the nose! Won't he be surprised! No mule can match wits with me. Oh yes, many have tried, and almost all have failed!

money's just an idea, it has power. Only it's not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it's real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.

Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.

High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned.

This is Quick Ben's game, O Elder. The bones are in his sweaty hands and they have been for some time. Now, if at his table you'll find the Worm of Autumn, and the once Lord of Death, and Shadowthrone and Cotillion, not to mention the past players Anomander Rake and Dessembrae, and who knows who else, well – did you really believe a few thousand damned Nah'ruk could take him down? The thing about Adaephon Delat's game is this: he cheats.

All thrones should be made of ice, I think. Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down, with the puddle of dissolution getting ever wider around you. Sit, dear ruler, and tell me all your grand designs.

They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table with mortal humans facing them. Cheating? When it comes to that, the Elder Gods are as children compared to humans. Since the time of my return, this much at least I have learned.

Truth cared nothing for stories. The real world was indifferent to what people wanted to be, to how they wanted everything to turn out. Betrayers came from everywhere, including inside his own body, his own mind. He could trust no one, not even himself.

Is that you?" came Shurq's voice from the darkness within. "Why yes," Bugg said, "it is." "Liar. You're not you, you're Bugg. Where's Tehol? I need to talk to Tehol.

There was an old saying among the Perish that a room full of women was a knife-seller's vision of paradise. 'There will be betrayal.' Oh yes indeed. Betrayal .

Such is the irony of life,» Kruppe proclaimed, raising one pastry-filled hand over his head, «that one learns to distrust the obvious, surrendering instead to insidious suspicion and confused conclusion. But, is Kruppe deceived? Can an eel swim? Hurrah, these seeming muddy waters are home to Kruppe, and his eyes are wide with wonder.»

Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they chose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.