Quotes About Deception

He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can't make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.

The value of money is a scam             perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

But the most fantastical of my imaginary worlds turned out to be the one I'd thought was real. As a child, I believed the world was run by competent, sane and benevolent adults. I believed this for much longer than I believed in Santa Claus. That belief has since gone down like the Titanic (on which I also spent a lot of time as a child). The world is run by nitwits and psychopaths.

Under that sexy cap, he had the brains of bivalve and I was glad not to be the one sleeping with him.

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Et tu, Jaffa?

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Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started.

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate.

Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.

This is how corruption begins. One small concession at a time. One thing you feel you have to do for a good reason.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

Claire had realized a long time ago that if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

Do what?" Buddy sounded flip. His eyes darted down to the wad of cash. "You got what you wanted." She shook her head. She had never wanted this. She had wanted to feel safe. To feel protected. To have someone interested in her life, her thoughts, her dreams.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out.

Flowers in the Attic

sing the hokey pokey of her life story, where she put the truth in, pulled a lie out, added an embellishment, and shook it all about.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out. Just like Michael Ormewood, come to think of it. What a perfect pair.