Quotes About Deception

Oh, chocolate fudge I'll eat. What I can't swallow is fudging, as in fudging statistics, fudging results, fudging the truth. Mathematicians call it a fudge factor—putting an extra calculation into an equation just so it will work out as expected....It's what we law enforcement types call a scam.

A propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks convincingly

The rich and powerful like to appear conformist, God-fearing, vaguely naïve and permanently jolly because they are none of those things.

You've always got me" "Always?" "Didn't I just say so?" "Yes" "Am I liar? " "No." I lied.

Of course it's the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they're happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

That's half of your trouble, muttered the crocodile. You believe everything's true. That's because everything is, replied Mr. Bacchus.

You opened their eyes to another world, darling. They'll never forgive you for that.

My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.

was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.

He told me he loved me, Clem.' Oh Lord.' 'And I believed him.' 'How many dozens of men have told you that?' 'Yes, but he was different 'Famous last words.

He was no longer innocent. With this slaughter he became the killer Decker had persuaded him he was. In murdering the prophet he made the prophecy true.

Brooding only looks good in the movies.

it is now clear to me that behind a façade of amiable bumbling, you are extremely well informed about your fellow spies. In fact, I suspect you know more about them than the ships you're supposed to be spying on.

The man's head nodded to his chest; he looked like a drunk who had dozed off. But it was an act.

She turned his

As Maeve hurried from the study, she turned and took one last look at her father and Boudicca, whom she always thought of as her sister, an older sibling who remained distant and seldom displayed anything but animosity, but a sister nonetheless. Her father had kept the secret well, enduring the shame and hiding it from the world. It sickened her to discover after all these years that Boudicca was a man.

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns.

As late as 1701, a Bordeaux ship's captain was able to persuade his employers that he had lost his cargo off Newfoundland to a fire-breathing dragon looming out of the deep.

Lei frugò tra le lenzuola, quindi serrò le dita intorno al legno levigato. «Ti amerò per sempre, Phillip». E lo pugnalò.

There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.

How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural. Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over.

What else was an ongoing criminal enterprise complicated by periodic violence for, but to make your wife happy?

You go on about reasons," Cora said. "Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

As if these daily humiliations and sacrifices mean something, are tallied by the ones who keep the books. Tomorrow we pick up where we left off. Sleep tight. Sleep deep. Sleep the sleep of the successful because somehow you made it through the day without anyone finding out that you are a complete fraud.