Quotes About Deception

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

Daimons, vampires, ghouls, whatever you want to call them. They suck your blood and your soul and leave you with nothing. Kind of like lawyers. (Selena)

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.