Quotes About Deception

Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that's what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that's why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn't have anything to do with praying. Prayers bore them.

From where he sat in the box above the ballroom, Grey was able to watch Rose without her knowing. The Duke of Ryeton, notorious rake and scoundrel, reduced to Peeping Tom. This is what Rose had brought him to. It was exactly one week ago tonight that he'd made lover to her for the last time. In this very building, in a room he canceled the reservation for just an hour ago.

This elven face of mine is deceiving, for I've been cursed with an all-too-human heart." Ador

Let us never be deceived into thinking that the magnitude of our sin negates His grace, for grace just abounds all the more.

She's using you to get to me," Hi said confidently. "Both of them. They've caught Hiram fever." I nodded. "Of course. It all makes sense now.

The four of us piled inside. Hi pressed five. The doors slid shut. "Hope nobody else needs a lift," Shelton whispered. "We can make something up," Hi hissed. "Say we lost our pony." I snorted. "And came to report it at one a.m.?" "Better than breaking in to steal evidence," Hi countered. "Maybe we loved that pony.

What do you think the message means?" Hi tapped the lone word on the sign. Chance snorted. "It means, Hiram, that whoever did this thinks I'm a traitor." "Join the club." Ben said.

Those who shouldn't are often those who most willingly flaunt it.

Bones never lie. But this. This is fucked up.

Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

Maskirovka (masquerade) is a technique developed by the Russian military in the early part of the last century that can be summarized by three words: deception, denial, and disinformation.

Trained by the KGB to spread confusion and doubt, actual diplomacy was not part of the Russian's repertoire.

a type of violence, that much charm continuously wielded, a blade that severed you from your own good sense.

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

It's not luck, I'm cheating." (Allen Walker)

There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory's dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray.

our landlord and landlady. Their house, just outside the town, was quite a little chateau, and the evil that dwelt within its highly polished salons, that reclined on its lace-covered beds, and was coiled deep in the stuffing of its exquisitely upholstered chairs and sofas, was enough to make the blood turn icy in the veins.

I heard the military bands playing with false and terrible cheer in the streets as the recruits went off to war [WW1]. I had beat the bed with my fists then, and cried tears of rage that young men must march off to this artful ad calculated accompaniment to places where wagon roads would be laid across their bones.

Like the servants, we, his children, were beneath him, and so we were left oftentimes standing with his lies in our hands like baffling presents, not knowing what we were to do with this collection of things, his words, whether they should be used or displayed or hidden like a broken toy in a corner of the nursery armoire." -- Emma Garnet on describing her father, page 2

The worst feeling is saying you're ok, holding back the tears; pretending to be a happy person; while dying on the inside."

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

everyone was a monster and everyone wore a mask to hide the fact.

Angels told me you're the poison, and always have been. Said you used God as an excuse to hurt people, includin' your own kin.

At first, there was nothing. At second, there was everything. And too late he realized that what he had put into his mouth was not candy at all, but a key.