Quotes About Deception

wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.

You swore to me. Does your word mean nothing?" Peter smiled wickedly, like someone who had just called checkmate. "I had my fingers crossed." "What? What the fuck are you talking about?" "That's the rules. You forgot to check.

You just might make a good devil yet.

You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

The saddest part of the story to me is that no one talked about the duplicity. The missing bread was never mentioned. The people were silent. ———

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.

He said it was impossible that God would deceive. He also said that God would not allow a soul, which is perfectly surrendered to Him and committed to endure everything for His sake, to suffer long.

There's nothing better than a rigged election, so long as you're the one rigging it.

It is not unusual for children to be deceptive or withholding or to purposefully lie in order to avoid things they don't want to share, especially when they have been instructed to do so by their families. However, it is far more difficult for them to hide their true thoughts and feelings in their artwork.

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How do evil, death and deception find power over the Motilone people?' I asked. "Through the ears,' Bobby answered, because language is so important to the Motilones. It is the essence of life. If evil language comes through the ears, it means death.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

If you don't have a sense of wonder it's like you're dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that's basically a conjurer's trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. "Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?" Hurt asked at one point. "I can tell you," Karpis said. "How do you know where it is?" asked Clyde Tolson, who sat in the backseat with Hoover. "We were thinking of robbing it," Karpis said.

Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer.

Mona leaned over and picked it up. Inside were hairy spiders. She shook the bottle. No, it was empty.

You punish liars? In my world, we elect them to public office.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.