Quotes About Deception

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

A good earthy witch is more honest than some city rogue tricked out in black cone-hat and robe of stars

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes a gifted ruler to tell just the right lies so they never realize it.

The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Myth is that which "diminishes the truth of salvation

When "the concept of error in the sense of incorrectness is … used on the same level as the concept of erring in the sense of sin and deception … we are quite far removed from the serious manner with which erring is dealt in Scripture … (as) a swerving from the truth and upsetting the faith (2 Tim. 2:18)

Gérard de Villiers

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

The circular which was distributed to attract subscribers to the Bank's initial stock offering explained: "The Bank hath benefit of interest on all the moneys which it, the Bank, creates out of nothing.

One don't like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.

a rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.

Men are seldom as they appear. You look so very guilty that I am convinced of your innocence. Still, you will likely be condemned. Justice is in short supply this side of the mountains. There has been none for Elia, Aegon, or Rhaenys. Why should there be any for you?

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

No tiene más de cuarenta años, y las arrugas le hacen una reja de prisionero, y la prisión es verdadera y corresponde a la fatiga y al desengaño que por fin le han atrapado. Las arrugas lo trabajan de dentro afuera, al revés de los demás hombres maduros. A todos les estropea la edad y a éste el corazón, su enemigo, el clavo de adentro que no se puede despuntar.

Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.

Ou bien, est-ce pour la combler...et ensuite la séduire, la réduire à une misère plus grande encore?

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

Jesus, I thought Zuckerman was cheating in you, Chief.

Will she be okay?" Sam said. "I think so," Anna said. It wasn't exactly a lie. She would be okay. Dead was okay. Sam nodded, but he had seen Anna in enough plays to know when she was lying, and he knew her well enough to know why she lied. When he lied, it was for the same reason: to protect her from that which she could not handle.