Quotes About Deception

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.

teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What's important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we're doing is playing at education.

She was pretty, he had to admit, with very delicate features. But there was something else, too. There are thorns in her eyes—that was the only way he could express it. For a moment, he thought she might have felt left out because he spoke to her friend first and not to her, but as she smiled, he realised the thorns were always there. A true lady would never have eyes like that.

Keigo Higashino

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

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the best lies told were the ones we tell ourselves.

There's a scarcity of the authentic in our culture. "So many people are liars:

Everyone sees what you appear to be," observed Machiavelli, "few really know what you are.

Honest, Blake, take no notice," Joe said. "He's a fart on the surface, but scratch underneath and he can sometimes smell a bit better.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Three smiles that are worse than grief; the smile of snow melting, the smile of a leaping dog, and the smile of your wife to you after sleeping with another man.

Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?

He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside.

You realized that you were really in one of the sleaziest businesses there is, without actually being a gangster. It was a business where the only time people laughed was when they'd screwed someone else over.

Logic is what the devil likes most.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

When you scalp a man more'n once, you begin to run out of hide.

When a hen cackles, she's either layin' or lyin'.

The three most fatal diseases in the West are: small pox, cholera, and the ignorance to argue with a long-haired, whisky-drinkin' liar.

He was as trustworthy as a bent tuppence.

With a clever and subtle lie, you were convinced to not exactly stop trusting in God, but to stop trusting exclusively in God. The