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Quotes About Deception

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for? - Eric, club dead.
~ Charlaine Harris
My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.
~ Charlaine Harris
Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don't have human values, you know." "A lot of humans turn on those who trust them," I pointed out. I can be practical. "I'm not a total fool.
~ Charlaine Harris
Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...
~ Charlaine Harris
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.
~ Charlaine Harris
She had almost certainly poisoned her perfidious former lover, a clerk, so she could marry into her own respectable upper-middle-class milieu without the clerk's revealing their physical intimacy.
~ Charlaine Harris
The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.
~ Charlaine Harris
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me
~ Charlaine Harris
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"—Charles Baudelaire "The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy"—Ken Ammi
~ Charles Baudelaire
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The jig is up: I'm not a nice lady.
~ Michelle Wolf
Dragon's Lair' we played a lot as kids. It's a fun game to look at - it's not a very fun game to play. Everyone who played it as a kid had the same experience: It's outrageously expensive, it looks really cool, it draws you in like a magnet, and then it just takes your money and is very frustrating.
~ Matt Duffer
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
~ Lois Lowry
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
~ Chelsea Cain
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
~ Quintilian
It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies.
~ Hisham Matar
I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.
~ Bob Christo
In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.
~ Janhvi Kapoor
Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
~ Sarah Pinborough
I get frustrated with companies that present themselves as your mates. They use emojis in the messages they send you, and they're very casual with their back-and-forth. That doesn't work if they've rinsed you of all your money.
~ Joe Lycett
Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.
~ Lewis Black
You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
~ Joe Garcia
Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.
~ Kevin Spacey