Quotes About Deception

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

But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.

I've increasingly found that people never truly tire of playing games and dressing up, no matter how many years pass. Our lies now are just more sophisticated; our words to deceive, more eloquent. From cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, to husband and wife, we've never stopped pretending.

Well, that's the problem with paradise. Nothing attracts a serpent quite like it. 

I know what's going on, Rosie. You're my best friend and I can see the sadness in your eyes. I know that Greg isn't away working for the weekend. You never could lie to me; you were always terrible at it. Your eyes betray you time and time again. Don't pretend that everything is perfect because I see it isn't. I see that Greg is a selfish man who has absolutely no idea just how lucky he is and it makes me sick.

Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for nothing destructive flirt and devil.

In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

Instead, she poured herself another drink. Tinsley was horrible, yes, but at least she was open about it. Callie couldn't help feeling like Brett and Jenny were just as bad … just more secretive. But maybe it was just the wine talking. Maybe.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Memory plays tricks in the night, in the dark. We imagine things not how they are, but how we want them to be.

Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true. . .try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle

Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was.

Cerca di ricordare il momento in cui tutte le stupide innocenti cose che hai pensato della vita e dell'amore, tutte le cose che pensavi importassero, tutte le cose che pensavi fossero vere... cerca di ricordare quando si sono trasformate in bugie. -Kyle

She's been fucking someone else. She's still fucking Duane. She's getting back together with Duane and they're getting married. Duane's in the closet with a video camera and a gun.

Verbal fraud is worse than monetary fraud.

In every betrayal dwells a self-betrayal.

She was quite enrapt, we were certain, even as her face remained almost totally blank, just as a drinking glass remains unchanged when filled with water but of course it is not at all the same.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me? I'm not that clever, Eric. I think you deceive yourself, Sookie, Eric said with a brilliant smile.

Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

Sookie, what have we done? And to whom? I killed a chicken. And I cooked it. Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false. -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse

Lies will come back to bite you in the butt