Quotes About Deception

They had me taking the fall for the raid, Mr. Crawford. For Evelda Drumgo's death, all of it. They were like hyenas and then suddenly it stopped and they slunk away. Something drove them off." "Maybe you have an angel, Starling." "Maybe I do. What did it cost you, Mr. Crawford?

Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar.

Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.

Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop.

it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade.

You've met Molly?" "Yeah. She's great, I like her. She'd be glad to see me in hell with my back broken, of course.

Karla had not been a total loss—she had provided Hans-Peter with some amusement and he was able to sell both her kidneys.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Big Hat No Cattle

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.

Orang yang membiarkan dirinya berbohong sekali, akan menyadari bahwa lebih mudah berbohong untuk kedua dan ketiga kali sampai menjadi kebiasaan.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, 'til at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

you were making them promises about a future. And would not such promises constitute, in anyone's code, a true cruelty?

You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun.

The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.

what time actually is--nothing less than a silent sister, a column of mercury without a scale, for the purpose of keeping people from cheating.

La corrupción es como un pantano sin fondo: de ella se puede esperar todo.

Even if you do have designs on my cash, and send me down to Pluto with a blow of your oar from behind, you will have rowed me well.

ceea ce te'nalta, ceea ce iti sporeste sentimentul de putere si vigoare si dominare, la dracu asta'i adevarul – chiar daca vazut din punctul de vedere al moralei ar fi de zece ori minciuna. ce vreau sa spun este ca un neadevar de natura a produce o sporire a puterii se poate masura cu orice adevar virtuos dar sterp.