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Quotes About Deception

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.
~ César Vallejo
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
Satan's chief tactic is deception" and he does it "by telling people lies about God
~ C. Peter Wagner
A love for the world begins in the soul. It's subtle, not always immediately obvious to others, and often undetected by the people who are slowly succumbing to its lies.
~ C.J. Mahaney
Su ingenuidad y su bondad parecían convertirlo en un imán irresistible para mujeres que devoraban hombres para desayunar y después escupían los restos
~ Camilla Lackberg
In life, there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
~ Candace Bushnell
I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.
~ Candace Bushnell
When you live a lie, you damage the soul.
~ Candace Bushnell
In life there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
~ Candace Bushnell
The abiding characteristic of this administration is that it lies.
~ Carl Bernstein
Somewhere Blister came up with boat rope and duct tape. He bound and gagged Yancy before sliding him under a bed. Yancy was impressed by the cleanliness of the floor—not even a dust bunny. The polished pine planks felt cool against his cheek. He shut his eyes and strained to hear the conversation of the carping fuckwits in the adjoining room.
~ Carl Hiaasen
while honesty is a good thing, lying is occasionally necessary in order to protect people.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Buck Nance used Lane Coolman's phone to call Krystal. 'Baby, I'm coming home soon,' he said. 'Who's this?' 'Aw, don't be like that.' 'Wait... now I remember, said his wife. 'You're the scumbag husband who keeps a whore on the side.' 'She's just another stalker. I swear to Christ.' 'Is Miracle her real name or is that what her pimp tagged her with?' 'She's a total psycho, Krystal. You can't believe a word she-' The line went dead.
~ Carl Hiaasen
At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him capable of homicide. Chaz himself was somewhat amazed that he'd actually gone through with it.
~ Carl Hiaasen
That's no midget," the water skier said. "That's a real person.
~ Carl Hiaasen
and the Chamber of Commerce was handing out cyanide capsules.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Martin Trebeaux had purchased a fleet of marine barges using the proceeds from a poshly falsified BP oil-spill claim.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Ernesto Cabal, alias Little Ernie, alias No-Way José, was sitting disconsolately on the crapper when the trusty opened the cell for Brian Keyes.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Guess what I got in the trunk? An Igloo cooler. And guess what's in the cooler? A human head.' Shad violently expelled the cigar out the window. He wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his camo jacket. 'No joke,' Garcia said. 'Property of one Francisco Goyo, deceased. I can't begin to tell you how much gas I've wasted on the case. The fat prick got dumped in a dozen different zip codes.' 'Why,' Shad asked, 'do you got his head in an Igloo?' 'So it won't stink up the car.
~ Carl Hiaasen
It is said that humans are defined and distinguished from other animals by our ability to use tools and language, but often I wonder if the most uniquely human trait is our ability to deceive ourselves.
~ Carl Safina
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
~ Carl Sagan
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
~ Carl Sagan
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
~ Carl Sagan
Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.
~ Carl Sagan