Quotes About Deception

Plenty of people have told me—and several of them even meant it as a compliment—that I have a God-given talent for fucking with people's minds; and what you can do to strangers is nothing compared to what you can do to your very own family.

If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful.

I crave truth. And I lie.

I could get a fedora and a trench coat and a wisecracking sense of humor; she could sit poised at hotel bars with a slinky red dress and a camera in her lipstick, to snare cheating businessmen…. I almost laughed out loud.

He strikes me as a psychopath, and they lie easier than they tell the truth.

a cipher, composed entirely of the jumbled reflections of what he thinks other people want to see.

I had come to think of my memories as solid, shining little tings, to be hunted out and treasured, and it was deeply unsettling to think that they might be fool's gold, tricky and fog-shaped and not at all what they seemed.

Children—and Rosalind was little more—don't tell pointless lies unless the reality is too much to bear.

Cal reached the point a long time ago where those words make him tired for all of humanity. All the innocents say that, and believe it to the bone, right up until the moment when they can't any more. My husband would never do that to our children, my baby ain't no thief. Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.

We're ruled by venal little usurpers, all of us, and they make meaninglessness everywhere they go.

men say, that false Dreams hold, clinging

Often the discrepancy works for us: people don't know who to worry about, the little girl with the gun or the big guy apparently without, and the distraction of deciding keeps them off balance.

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications.

The devil never gave a gift for free.

At this third lie, Pinocchio's nose grew so long that he could not even turn around. If he turned to the right, he banged into the bed or windows. To the left, he hit the walls or the door. If he raised his nose, he would poke Fairy's eyes out. Like most liars, he was stuck.

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Nothing is ever what it seems and not everything is yours to see.

and i don't think you should lie to me with any nature poems because you know you don't think sand is beautiful unless you are in a good mood, which you never are

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure. But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

Ljubav može biti i guja pritajena u obliku ogrlice i slavuj koji ne prestaje cvrkutati.

Les prisons les plus dangereuses sont celles dont on ne voit pas les barreaux.

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

fake leather looks great until you use it in demanding situations, and then it shows its true colors and lets you down.