Quotes About Deception

There is no true life within a false life.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

Ich fürchte nicht die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Faschisten, sondern die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Demokraten.

Il mondo nuovo è un unico campo di concentramento che si crede un paradiso, non essendoci nulla da contrapporgli.

L'art est la magie délivrée du mensonge d'être vrai.

Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.

If humankind, as T. S. Eliot put it, cannot bear very much reality, it seems that it can bear any amount of unreality.

Alma-Tadema and Frédéric could paint nothing that was truthful either to the world or to themselves.

the primrose path to earthly perdition.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

What I cannot understand about the Russian is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

as they say, a Cretan is attacking a Cretan" (quod dici solet, Cretensis incidit in Cretensem); that is, "it takes a thief to catch a thief," or "it takes one to know one

I didn't trust men. I wanted to trust them because I knew there must be some good men in the world, but the ones I'd known had lied to my face while plotting acts of violence. Women could be bitches, but men were the ones who seemed the most capable of crimes without mercy.

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

Therefore, neither confide in nor depend upon a wind-shaken reed, for "all flesh is grass" and all its glory, like the flower of grass, will fade away. You will quickly be deceived if you look only to the outward appearance of men, and you will often be disappointed if you seek comfort and gain in them.

And whatsoever thou art not enabled to understand, that commit without anxiety to Almighty God. God deceiveth thee not; he is deceived who believeth too much in himself. God walketh with the simple, revealeth Himself to the humble, giveth understanding to babes, openeth the sense to pure minds, and hideth grace from the curious and proud. Human reason is weak and may be deceived; but true faith cannot be deceived.

Satan leaves unbelievers and sinners alone because he already has them in his grip; he goes after believers who are faithful and devout.