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Quotes About Deception

You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.
~ Piyush Goyal
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.
~ Harlan Coben
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
~ Albert Camus
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars
~ Sara Shepard
It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
~ Sarah Dessen
Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.
~ Sean Kingston
We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.
~ Sepp Blatter
Let me guess, Velkan wants to see me? (Esperetta) No. The only thing His Highness would like to see in regards to you, Princess, is your disembowelment. (Raluca)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.
~ Tom Tomorrow
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
~ William Shakespeare
I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?
~ Zach Braff
No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.
~ Harrison Ford
It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
~ Irvine Welsh
You're sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you're convinced you're going to die of discomfort.
~ J.A. Redmerski
There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.
~ James Rebhorn
She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.
~ Jay Asher
I had you pictured dead in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace. And now you show up alive, and I want to kill you myself. (Zack)
~ Jennifer Crusie
Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don't want to end up like me.
~ Jun Mochizuki
They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth." Rachel
~ Katherine Applegate
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.
~ Keith Barry