Quotes About Deception

How do you trick a psychopath into telling the truth?" Laura kept silent for so long that Andrea wasn't sure she was still on the line. Eventually, her mother said, "You do the same thing that they do to you—you make them think that you believe in them.

the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena

Carver is a charming man with a soft voice that makes you believe he is always confiding in you. He is courteous and attentive, which I wonder about, because is this his natural disposition, or has he read too many novels about Hannibal Lecter?

Dr. Carroll," the warden said, his voice sounding like Foghorn Leghorn, "Ben Carver is a psychopath. He's incapable of empathy or remorse. If you see something human in him, that's only because he's playing the part.

Claire asked, "Do you think I should call Captain Mayhew?" "For what?" Lydia couldn't keep the alarm out of her voice. The abrupt change in subject slapped her like a cold wind. "He lied to you about the movies. He said they were fake.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

Well." Lydia took a deep breath as she prepared to 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.

if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

Not realizing until exactly 3:12 this morning, that the reason toy box smelled like rotten fruit roll ups is because Emma was hiding all her fruit roll ups in the bottom. Toddler are such fucking assholes.

Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people's voice.

It was The Aeneid that had included the fascinating story of the Trojan Horse. Why anyone would accept a gift from a departing, defeated army had made no sense to her then and still did not. But, again, men had made the decision, probably drunk with their victory. Any woman would look at such a gift and wonder why it had been given, and then have someone quickly dispose of it.

People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile.

This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.

Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.

How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs, she said to Ursula.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!