Quotes About Deception

The spirit of deception, you see," Father Maximos explained, "has egotism and pride as its primary attribute.

Discount all praise by nine-tenths, since a king draws flatterers as offal does flies.

They're waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps

It's a lot of real G's doing time/ Cause a groupie bit the truth and told a lie." —TUPAC

The man who has not lived in the secrecy and intelligence environment—really lived in it and fully experienced it—cannot write accurately about it. There is no substitute for the day to day living of a life in which he tells his best friends and acquaintances, his family and his everyday contacts one story while he lives another.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.' A parallel is that 'the apparency of a result can be mistaken for the result.

People live so much in a world of appearances, that claim lack of character is madness.

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, "Bathroom door beside you," and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.

You know why I don't leave," he said again to Damon, who wouldn't look at him. "You can pretend you don't care. You can fool the whole world. But I know differently." It would have been kindest at this point to leave Damon alone, but Stefan wasn't in a kind mood. "You know that girl you picked up, Rachael?" he added. "The hair was all right, but her eyes were the wrong color. Elena's eyes were blue.

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot? Jenny: What? Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing. Jenny: Is that what you are? Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down.

You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine

He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.

Julian could spin a web of shadows around you, with touches like the brush of moth's wings and kisses soft as twilight. He could turn your own senses against you until the kisses left you dizzy and breathless and the moth's-wing touches put you on slow burn. And by the time you realized what was underneath the softness, you were shivering and melting and lost.

Their conversations usually followed the same pattern: beginning with Lady Franklin and her obsession, they ended with Leadbitter and his fictitious home-life. Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies; but Lady Franklin asked a great many questions and Leadbitter told her a great many lies.

Halk, her zaman yalanlar? kendisi yaratm??; sonra da bunlara inanm??t?r.

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.