Quotes About Deception

Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can't kiss a girl into anything.

Can you imagine there being so many people that you could just murder one and nobody would know who did it right away?

Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. "As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

Lebedeva snapped her fingers. "It's like lying!" she exclaimed. "Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.

There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.

She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.

It's the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.

The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.

He meant to kill me...No, not kill me – make me forget. Forget everything. He said we'd live together in a house of pumpkin and gold – yes, once I couldn't remember why I'd come to Fairyland-Below, or recall Fairyland-Above, or even Omaha and Mother and Father and any reason not to live in Tain and feast every night! How could he? That's as bad as killing, to take away everything a person is.

I really don't know what you're talking about," said the Speaker of the United State House of Representatives. "We're doing great. Turn on any news channel, they'll tell you. Taxes are low, business is booming, crime is down, the Patriots win the Super Bowl every year, and we're finally getting our country back. I'll admit, it used to be a real nightmare around here.

You can fool some of the people some of the time—but you'd best not be fooling yourself, the biggest fool of all.

How could you ever think you knew a person? Did everyone lie?

People would rather hold on to their illusions than face the truth." "It seems to me that people have to know their own truth before they can embrace someone else's," I philosophized. Mark elaborated, "The average public is socially engineered to the point where they no longer think to look within.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

had believed that, working in their house and seeing to their needs, watching their comings and goings and their dealings with others, I had come to know them. How little, how very little, that knowledge had really amounted to.

How could he have thought a single good thing about these men, all of their fine talk and promises. Even his pa. Not a one of them was as good as their word.

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Still, he could see how a man like Scott might get confused at a place like the Meadows. Life looked well enough there. It was what you couldn't see that rubbed your soul raw.

The Great Bitch is the deadly female, a worthy opponent for the omnipotent hero to exercise his powers upon and through. She is desirous, greedy, clever, dishonest, and two jumps ahead all the time. The hero may either have her on his side and like a lion-tamer sool her on to his enemies, or he may have to battle for his life at her hands.

Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.