Quotes About Deception

It's all bloody lies about the sea. It's just all yuk with lobsters in it.

In Shadwell's simple world, anyone in sunglasses who wasn't actually on a beach was probably a criminal.

REALITY IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT IT SEEMS, said Death. ANYWAY, IF THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE ME, THEY CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU. THESE ARE ARISTOCRATS, BOY. THEY'RE GOOD AT NOT SEEING THINGS. WHY IS THERE A CHERRY ON A STICK IN THIS DRINK?

But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass.

No one likes a poor thief.

Devil spelled backward is Lived.

Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked.

You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.

Already had one reporter worm her

My aunts did not share in the housework, but they contributed greatly to all of the village gossip. They had fake faces, showing Mama kindness and calling her ate, "big sister," but once they were alone, I heard the snide remarks they shot like an arrow in her direction. They had no shame. On that day of our deepest sorrow, the two of them snorted, elbowing each other while Mama writhed in agony on the floor

In a place where there is something that can be distinguished by signs, in that place there is deception. If you can see the signless nature of signs, then you can see the Tathagata.

Ez a történet nem érte el célját, ha az olvasó nem vette észre, hogy az Å'rnagy fajankó volt.

Self-deception actually determines one's experience in every aspect of life.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Aber er hatte lange genug gelebt, um zu wissen, dass alle Zeichen trügen und dass wir in unsrer Eifersucht, trotz ihrer hundert Augen, oft noch mehr in die Irre gehen, als in der Blindheit unsres Vertrauens.

Your way of not bothering looks exactly like bothering, if you ask me.

Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself.

What did you lie to me

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.