Quotes About Deception

Si algo tienen en común los psicópatas es una habilidad consumada para hacerse pasar por gente normal y corriente, mientras detrás de la fachada, de ese disfraz brutal y brillante, late el corazón refrigerado de un predador implacable y glacial.

False brethren don't show up at your church to be helped, they come to devour the flock. They are wolves. Wolves like to feed on lambs. You don't negotiate with a wolf. You don't counsel a wolf. You don't pray with a wolf. Read this carefully, the only thing you can do with a wolf is take them out, drive them out, and drive them away from your flock! This is what the leadership at Ephesus did, and Jesus commended them for it.

You are! You're staring at me and accusing me!" She thew down her tea. "But I didn't kill my only child, Kyle, bury him in the dirt floor of the basement and construct an elaborate fantasy world! No, I did not!

Memories are also tainted by lies.

lies drive a wedge between who you really are and who you act like you are, and the greater the distance between those two, the greater the dissonance in your life will be.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Tragedy, Lazaar told her, is the story in which the liar is lying to himself; in comedy, the liar is lying to everyone else.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isa. 5:20) If all that is evil is called good, what is there left to call evil, but one thing: those Christians that uphold the objective, eternal law of the Creator of heaven and earth.

She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.

Daniel, if she were blind and deaf, would be the sickly sweet smell of artificial strawberries and singed dough.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

The eye hath ruined me,' the heart complained. 'The heart has lost me,' the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.

Telling a lie is a fault for a little boy, an art for a lover, an accomplishment for a bachelor and a matter of survival for a married man.

We explain the unattractive by pretending it is esoteric.

Thus does youth weave the web for his own capture and feigns surprise when ultimately he is caught!

Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.

Sot genjeshtra mbulon te verteten kur ne pozit te ulet ndodhet. Pamja bie me shume ne sy kurse brendesia nuk kerkohet.

We love that which we corrupt.

Does Carthage even have forests? Did Virgil know for sure or was it just convenient for his story? Virgil was a professional liar. This would not be the only place where he pruned the truth until it was as artificial as an espaliered pear tree against a wall, forced into an expedient shape and bearing the demanded fruit.

Reality TV has in fact absolutely nothing to do with reality.

It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Of course it happened. If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.