Quotes About Deception

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.

ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty conceptual apparatus, at the other.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

He targets women who need help of some kind, then offers it to them. In the end, the only person he's helping is himself." Molly wiped away the wetness on her cheeks. "Thank you for saying that. In my heart, I know it's true. I feel like such a fool.

Precisely who are you,Captain Sharpe?" He looked into that beautiful, treacherous face and a sweep of lust rushed through him. "You want to know who I am? Well, I am the devil incarnate and you,my sweet, are about to pay the devil's due.

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

anyone can make a desert and call it peace...

Husbands adored you, too, at least at first. Being adored was something she had come to mistrust. She felt adoration to be a small and lovely-looking bomb that could blow up in your face at any time.

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

Radium was a clever poison. It masked its way inside its victims' bones; it foxed the most experienced physicians. And like the expert serial killer it was, it had now evolved its modus operandi.

You well know that if a lie is repeated often enough, in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary, even the most level-headed of men start to believe in it. Falsehood easily becomes accepted truth.

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Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." —

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

An illusion of weakness, masking phenomenal strength.

Memories while true are impermanent, while film, while permanent is untrue.

I didn't like to hurt the children anymore, so I said, 'I will serve you no longer.' Then all of a sudden he looks like a man and threatens to hurt me. When he was like a man, he had a yellow bird he kept with him, and he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me if I would serve him.