Quotes About Deception

In the dark, glitter is nothing but sand.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

"They say" is often a great liar.

If I was a President and wanted something I would claim I didn't want it. Congress has not given any President anything he wanted in the last 10 years. Be against anything and then he is sure to get it.

A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

An ill man is worst when he appeareth good.

History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.

Beware of the half-truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Yes, it is always the best policy to speak the truth — unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

...and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work... Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse has changed; or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Các sá»± v?t không ph?i bao gi? cÅ©ng Ä'úng nhÆ° v? b? ngoài.

Parables don't lie, but liars will parable."—Lip-King.

First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, happy-go-lucky, good-fellows-all; others may appear to be reserved or even aloof. Yet I found that at the end of a voyage these aloof ones were often the persons whom I grew to like and respect the most, while those who seemed so agreeable turned out to be rascals.

You sing siren songs of inducement!

Remark the difference, Lord Faide, between man and metal. A man's normal state is something near madness; he is at all times balanced on a knife-edge between hysteria and apathy. His senses tell him far less of the world then he thinks they do. It is a simple trick to deceive man, to posses him with a demon, to drive him out of his mind, to kill him. But metal is insensible; metal reacts only as its shape and condition dictates, or by the working of miracles.

Elric spoke a mighty sermon, while Magre started the fire in his pit. Elric expounded, recited Scripture and sang the glories of the Faith. When he came to an end and declared his final 'Hallelujah!', Magre gave him a stoup of ale to ease his throat. Sharpening a knife he complimented Elric upon the fervour of his rhetoric. Then he smote off Elric's head, cut, drew, spitted, cooked and devoured the sanctified morsel with a garnish of leeks and cabbages.

A las personas hay que aceptarlas con sus máscaras; es la única forma de quitárselas.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.