Quotes About Deception

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

WHOAAAA. THERE GOES CODY RHOOOOODESSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. What's up, man?

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

How long do you want these messages to remain secret?[...] +I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.

My men think you are dead now, and won't waste balls on you," Jack said. "In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way back to Paris and tell them the following: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by 'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!

What's the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand.

I guessed that by pretending to be the leader I could make a few things go my way, at least for a little while, until they figured out I was faking it.

It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats, Vic says, looking through his magic site. Five guys on it. Headed our way. He fires another round. Correction. Four guys on it. Boom. Correction, they're not headed our way anymore. Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. Correction. No boat.

He was forty-seven years old but in dim light could have passed for thirty.

That sounds like bulshytt!

the ability to kill someone is basically a mental stance, and not a question of physical means; a serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka.

He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.

I hate e-mail," John says. Harvard Li stares him in the eye for a while. "What do you mean?" "The concept is good. The execution is poor. People don't observe any security precautions. A message arrives claiming to be from Harvard Li, they believe it's really from Harvard Li. But this message is just a pattern of magnetized spots on a spinning disk somewhere. Anyone could forge it.

Due diligence people are easy to manipulate. You just have to act really diligent. They eat it up.

No one would be fooled, but propriety would be maintained.

Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation. (2) In Orth, a more technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.