Quotes About Deception

You cannot play naive if you're not.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Politics is a nasty business.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Many yearn to be deceived and directed. It makes life easier to bear.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

no lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it.

The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of if only.What happened,happened;

Once you realized that everyone with whom you associated was, potentially, happy to literally stab you in the back, all the wondering just . . . went away.

Three beings can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Evil was easier to deal with when it was an ugly, inhuman creature than when it took the shape of a friend.

Away from the monster that wore a lover's face

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.

family of friends, people she knows only by their voices. She especially likes Griswald, gruff old butler for wealthy Zack Givens.   Meeting Griswald is a shock; he is neither gruff nor old, but a powerful, handsome man. In fact, he is Zack Givens, cold, heartless — and charmed by the artless young woman who brings him chicken soup, treats him like a friend … and falls in love with the humble man she imagines him to be. Inevitably, she will face his betrayal. Then

If he says there's nothing wrong with them, then there most certainly is something wrong with them.

she saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people—

Why do I have to do this? Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model, Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with, Gator rumbled. Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.

I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.

Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man's butt.