Quotes About Deception

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.

Sex is never messy on screen.

I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.

In spite of everything, he still felt wonderful, like I was embracing a mountain. But I now knew that as solid as he seemed, he was no mountain.

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too.

I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono's head in orange wavy letters: "I … am … the … devil … and I am … just … like … you …

Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.

Is that your real name? Does it really matter? It makes me wonder what else is not real.

Later, as she's putting the dress back on, I notice a bruise on the side of her torso that I had'nt seen before. Who did that to you I ask. Oh that She says? You did

You just said your name was Pat." "No. I was wrong," I say sternly, staring directly at him. "I was wrong about my name being Pat. My name is Marcus.

I concentrate on the Absolut and cranberry I'm holding and it looks like a glassful of thin, watery blood with ice and a lemon wedge in it.

Blair thinks about it for a moment and then says slowly, evenly, "If Cliff slept with Didi, then he must have slept with Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Raoul." "Who's Raoul?" Alana and Kim ask at the same time. I open my menu and pretend to read it, wondering if I slept with Raoul. Name seems familiar.

We'll slide down the surface of things...

This in turn has led to the awful idea—and booming business—of reputation management, where firms are hired to help shape a more likable, relatable You. Devoted to gaming the system, this new practice is a form of deception, an attempt to erase (strangely) both subjectivity and objectivity, to evaluate through mass intuition, for a very high price.

Frank Macy looked surprised. That was what Cab thought as he studied the dead man's eyes. Surprised that he had been conned. Surprised that a man who was smart, cool, and lethal could be played for a fool.

Politics is a tangled web, an intricate labyrinth, an ever-shifting kaleidoscopic pattern. And it is not pretty.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

My father lied to me! He distorted the events, taking credit, hiding the extent of the brutality and suffering—even Omnius knew it. On the other hand, Serena had told him the truth.

The successful executive is like a poker player, either concealing his emotions or showing false ones, so that others cannot use them against him. —AURELIUS VENPORT, The Legacy of Business