Quotes About Deception

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

From the outside, my life seemed charmed, and I would say as much to anyone who asked. And yet deep down, part of me would also have known that I was lying.

Because you believed him when he promised it wouldn't happen again. Because he gradually grew more violent and controlling over time, slowly enough that you felt like he would change until you finally realized he wouldn't.

Les gens parlent de la vérité comme si c'était l'élixir miracle pour tous les problèmes de la vie. Je suis là depuis assez longtemps pour savoir que ce n'est pas le cas, et que parfois la vérité peut faire plus de mal que de bien.

There are some people in the world, and the reason they're not in jail is because they've learned how to hide it.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because you the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.

one of the main things that school taught, I realized, was how to lie to get by.

She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped.

The foreign policy establishment depends unabashedly on lies.

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

No es preciso que un príncipe posea todas las virtudes citadas, pero es indispensable que aparente poseerlas

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

I see someone who's really good at saying the right things, but when push comes to shove, doesn't mean a thing he says.

é que os homens, com satisfação, mudam de senhor pensando melhorar e esta crença faz com que lancem mão de armas contra o senhor atual, no que se enganam porque, pela própria experiência, percebem mais tarde ter piorado a situação.

Os homens em geral julgam mais pelos olhos que pelas mãos, porque o ver toca a todos, sentir toca a poucos: todos vêem aquilo que tu pareces, poucos sentem aquilo que tu és

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

You hear a sound and it's truth turning in its grave.

Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.

Don't be a fool, you've let yourself fall apart, the pieces have got lost, and now there's nothing left to give, you can't hide it forever, sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

It's hard to tell you has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.