Quotes About Deception

Brutal duplicity was his coinage. He played his games with little else.

But I have not openly admitted that breaking my word or lying are acts of darkness.

You are full of shit, Sawyer O'Donnell. I believe that you invented the Blarney Stone instead of kissed it.

Deceived wives could purchase a gun, take lessons, and receive a cheating-husband hunting license complete with a big red A label to tie to the man's zipper after the kill. Open season could be scheduled months in advance to give the husbands a fighting chance. They could hide in refuges or stay home and take their chances at being shot through the living room window as they watched Monday Night Football.

Getting close to a woman, no matter if it's real or not, can backfire.

he conned his way past Saint Peter at the pearly gates, then the angels best lock down those streets of gold.

Agnes shook a finger at her. "Stop your caterwauling. I didn't poison you. I just used five bars of Ex-Lax in a pan of fudge. And I mixed Miralax with the milk so I wouldn't have to put in that pinch of salt. It was guaranteed to start working in one hour or less. Didn't miss it by much, did it? If you die tomorrow morning, we can bury you in a shoebox, Violet Prescott, because you won't be full of shit no more.

Next the ruined panty hose came off. I removed my wide gold wedding band, tied it to the leg with the big hole, and carried it back to the bedroom. I stood on the bed and looped the hose around a blade on the ceiling fan. I hoped Drew would flip on the light switch and the thing would knock him upside the head.

I still think Barty must be a crook

On a hunch she asked whose signature Claude Aubert had forged. The group was astounded to learn it was that of Charles Leblanc! The "frightened financier"!

Deirdre!" Kendra said. "She broke her promise!

Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic.

You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real?

Balthasar, his people—they're not what they seem." "Look, instead of a vague warning why can't you just tell me why you don't like them? Give me some information here." "You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he said. Exasperated, I flung my arms and shouted, "I'm a freaking werewolf! Try me!

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

As Joseph Schumpeter remarked, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool enough of the people for long enough to do irreversible damage.

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.

Annamae had accepted her mother's word on that, even believed that the old woman had passed away. But now that she knew

I know where that distrust comes from. He grins. When I was little, my mom gave me a cookie. The raisins were made to look like chocolate chips. That's when my trust issues started.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.

fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

Well that's the problem with paradise—nothing attracts a serpent quite like