Quotes About Deception

her Jonquil overlay

zimboe—a zombie with no self-awareness, but programmed to claim to be aware in an attempt to deceive the truly conscious beings around it.

there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.

But who says that everyone using statistics is smart or honest? As mentioned, this book began as an homage to How to Lie with Statistics, which was first published in 1954 and has sold over a million copies.

There is truth and there are lies, and art always tells the truth, even when it's lying.

Our work is to reflect the world, say what is true in the face of so much lying.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

have you killed me, false thief?

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

When person A loves person B, he began, person A gets upset at the thought of never seeing person B again. He meant me. He meant he loved me. But now I knew that love was a poisonous thing. It had turned me into a murderer. I would die with my secret before I would tell. It's better that way, I lied, because person B doesn't love person A back.

stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

We have a saying that a snake is never as long as the stick to which we liken its length.

You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it. Had not a Minister of State said, albeit in an unguarded, alcoholic moment, that the trouble was not in receiving bribes, but in failing to do the thing for which the bribe was given? And if you refuse, how do you know that a "brother" or a "friend" is not receiving on your behalf, having told everyone that he is your agent?

Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

When was it ever heard that a child was scalded by the piece of yam its own mother put in its palm? What man would send his son with a potsherd to bring fire from a neighbor's hut and then unleash rain on him? Who ever sent his son up the palm to gather nuts and then took an axe and felled the tree?

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

NOTE TO A WOULD-BE LOVER So, You think you got me, huh? Well, You ain't got me. You only got my underpants And they go back on Just as easy as they came off.

Ah, the Devil Herself. We really do not know whether the Devil wears breeches or a skirt, now do we?

You know the type—will give herself to the first nobleman in a uniform who comes calling with a couple of eggs and a piece of rat meat." "You're selling yourself short." "I've just sold myself for rat meat," she said, and she turned from him and lit the stove.

crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked.

It's girls whose ages are from 13 to 22 who are going astray, even as young as 9 years; deceived, betrayed, led away by the promise of making a fortune selling themselves.

Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people's ideas.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.