Quotes About Deception

Foul Superstition! howsoe'er disguised, Idol, saint, virgin, prophet, crescent, cross, For whatsoever symbol thou art prized, Thou sacerdotal gain, but general loss! Who from true worship's gold can separate thy dross?

Pero había que creer. Había que simular no creer, y en realidad creer.

El mentiroso experimentado sabe que la clave del éxito está en fingir bien la ignorancia de ciertas cosas. Por ejemplo, de las consecuencias de lo que está diciendo. Es como hacer que sean los otros los que inventen.

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

We won't be deceivedby titles such as Indispensable and Unique and Great.Someone else indispensable and unique and greatcan always be found at a moment's notice.

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

In a self-betraying condition, how we present ourselves unavoidably becomes of the focus of our concern, and we mistakenly confuse it with how we really are.

the god stuff is not real.

Never trust someone who tells good stories, not until you know why they're doing it.

Never trust someone who tells good stories, not until you know why they're doing it.

even a question can be a lie if asked in the right way.

A mild fabrication may raise suspicion, but a major falsehood invites credulity.

Toute passe–yesterday's truth is to-day's deception, and yesterday's false inference may be to-morrow's revelation.

what am I to do there? Is it a deception that I can no longer trust my thoughts? Only life is true, and only life leads me into the desert, truly not my thinking, that would like to return to thoughts, to men and events, since it feels uncanny in the desert.

The figure of the Trickster] is the collective shadow.

The psyche is still a foreign, almost unexplored country of which we have only indirect knowledge; it is mediated by conscious functions that are subject to almost endless possibilities of deception.

Eddie Haskell

I'm here to pay my respects to the Kleinsasser family," Cassie said after a beat. "It's over, John Wayne. I know everything." His face twitched. The color drained out of it. "What in the hell are you talking about?" he asked. "I know about your mine," she said. "I know how you framed Blake. I know enough to put you into Deer Lodge prison for a very long time.

His lightweight Taurus 738 TCP semiauto in .380 ACP. In an oblong, hard, and hinged box once used for sunglasses was a syringe filled with Rohypnol.

Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries.