Quotes About Deception

All you had of a person was what they showed you.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.

It's very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he'll find that you are not the person he thought you were.

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

Stop playing the part of the glib martyr. You're just trying to make cyanide out of 7-Up.

The world was his shower and he used women for soap.

Who do you want them to think you are? How do you think people see you? Or don't you let them near enough to see. You make up their minds for them. Do you think that you succeed in convincing people that you are what you seem to be?

It was hiding in plain sight. Mocking the suggestion that anything was going on; therefore, it couldn't be true. A technique I like to use to this day.

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little ... I tried to read between your lines as you would so rarely speak but I gave you far more credit than you were actually due you see I thought I was only seeing half the man but that was all there was to you

Maybe," he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, "she took advantage of me.

I whirl around, stare into his grimy,grief-stricken face. His face is beautiful and so good. How could I have believed he'd betray us?

You cloak your evil, your violence, in the mask of good. I am just evil.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.

that's a pretty big lie by omission

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

From now on, consider yourself a con artist.

You're gonna have to explain all this shit to me, Frank. You don't just tell a guy he's dead and get him to throw a stiff into the river for you and then we fuck off for donuts.

But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace] "Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale]

I had erroneously become convinced that I had the power to alter my reality, when in fact it was demonic spirits that were at work in my life.

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.