Quotes About Deception

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario.

Nobody must know the truth, because I've learned that in this world truth only hurts, and God loves and helps those who lie.

La verdad es un acuerdo que permite que los inocentes no tengan que convivir con la realidad. —No

Un buon bugiardo sa che la menzogna più efficace è sempre una verità a cui è stato sottratto un elemento fondamentale.

There are a lot of morons out there who only go by appearances

Las apariencias no siempre engañan, pero casi siempre atontan

Todo lo que ocurre en la sociedad, en la vida pública, es una escenificación, un simulacro de aquello que intentamos hacer pasar por realidad pero no lo es.

What do I know? Few things are more deceptive than memories.

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo. —¿Qué

El dinero es como cualquier otro virus: una vez pudre el alma del que lo alberga, parte en busca de sangre fresca.

Nikad nikome nemoj vjerovati, Daniele, posebice ne onima kojima se diviš. Oni ?e ti prvi zabiti nož u le?a.

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo.

I looked at him and saw a lonely man, devoid of hope. I knew what I was doing when I took him home and let myself be seduced by him. I knew I was deceiving him and that he knew, too, but had nothing else in the world. That is how we became lovers, out of desperation.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. Listen

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. In

The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and the feeble-minded as intellectual

Esto no es como Roma. Aquí sí se paga a traidores

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice but I'm afraid he, too, may be practicing his new personality on me and that maybe he has trained himself with electric shock to his balls or some other place just as tender and soft, so that we are both living a lie.

Almost everyone agrees with her. However much they look into her eyes and think she is uttering mere niceties, they are sworn to that ultimate courtesy, which is to believe what people want us to believe. And thus, when Mrs. Willow bids them good afternoon, they courteously rise to their feet. "Good afternoon," they smile back, shaking hands carefully, and postponing their slow, rhythmic applause and the smashing of the teacups.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell (1946)

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Did he think Brendan planned to snatch the laptop and throw it down a crevasse in a glacier?

In his experience people (hardened criminals apart) who had something to hide and people who had nothing to hide had one thing in common. Faced by a policeman asking questions, they could never remain silent for long.