Quotes About Deception

How did you know?' she asked as he sat her on her feet inside the door. 'I didn't. This was just in case.' he lied, this man who'd had women pursuing him since his adolescence…

My mother had a dog once. She used to make it jump through a burning hoop to prove its devotion to her, until she found my father did it better. He jumped through that hoop for over six years. When he finally got tired of performing for her amusement he killed her. And that's what makes men such interesting pets, Markham - you never know when they're going to turn and bite.

For some, the Betty Crocker Kitchens experience was a tearful one. "Betty Crocker isn't one woman,". visitors were told, "but many women who work under her name." ... People don't usually travel all the way to the North Pole, meet the elves, and then find out the truth about Santa. But what happened at the Betty Crocker Kitchen was "worse because Betty was their hero.

And incidents of clandestine cake mix use were not isolated! Busybodies excused themselves from parties just long enough to rifle through the kitchen trash cans for empty cake mix boxes.

Be not deceived, God's not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.also quoted by Jesus Christ

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels. He

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels.

Time has a way of fixing memories so they have their own truth, even if years later they deceive you.

Don't fall in love with a spy.

wrong about Jenny always wearing it. She could have taken it off, packed it away, or buried it in the backyard.

Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?

the cubicles of sin

If all of this makes orchids seem smart—well, they do seem smart. There is something clever and un-plantlike about their determination to survive and their knack for useful deception and their genius for seducing human beings for hundreds and hundreds of years.

The problem with Harry was that he didn't just pick one lie and stick with it.

By the clever and continuous use of propaganda, a people can even be made to mistake heaven for hell, and vice versa. —Adolf Hitler

Trust the body of your enemy. The body does not lie. Most people," she'd looked directly at Mary, "most people do not know how to make the body lie.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

Lying is a thriving vocation.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

I have been telling a lot of lies lately.

I pretended not to be too interested in the gun.

Boast disguised as confession. Threat disguised as confession.