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Quotes About Deception

Nevertheless, he did not honor this promise. Just as Magellan feared
~ Laurence Bergreen
And when Magellan knelt to kiss the king's hands, as custom dictated, King Manuel concealed them behind his cloak and turned his back
~ Laurence Bergreen
You need clear thinking to prevent an invasion of Alien Parasites, and to battle them. The 'reality' of Las Vegas, Hollywood, Haute Couture, politics, pornography, advertising, supermarket tabloids, are all false realities designed to deceive and confuse you with what is truly authentic. They also weaken your mind, because these false realities hypnotize you. You mind becomes weak and passive, and so therefore you have no mental defenses against the mind parasites.
~ Laurence Galian
people who are victims of the Alien Parasites. Victims of the Archons do not see the world clearly. They live in an artificial world.
~ Laurence Galian
There's no beauty in the false, the artificial and the lie.
~ Laurence Galian
Therefore, do not attempt to collect a lot of facts, in order to impress others or to obtain one degree after another. The Archons disguise facts so that they appear to be wisdom. What you need in order to strengthen yourself against all forms of Archontic attack, is living knowledge.
~ Laurence Galian
They [alien parasites] make their victims (usually referred to as 'hosts') think the whole world is a kind of lie, a simulation.
~ Laurence Galian
The Archons are the servants of the Demiurge. The Archons are ruling spirits, but they are false rulers.
~ Laurence Galian
who had thought she was having
~ Laurence Gonzales
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
~ Laurence J. Peter
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
~ Laurence J. Peter
the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
~ Laurence Olivier
the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
~ Laurence Olivier
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
~ Laurence Sterne
No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
the psychobabble spelled out in magazines, the imaginary divans we would never wish to lie on ourselves, all they do is hold up mirrors in which not a single truth is revealed, because the truth is always trounced by the lie. Was Heinz a liar by saying nothing? Did he drink because he never stopped telling lies?
~ Cees Nooteboom
It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.
~ Celeste De Blasis
What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. All those times he'd pretended to lose her.
~ Celeste Ng
rainbow of different, beautiful lies. But now, seeing the picture
~ Celeste Ng
everything had to be beautiful and perfect on the outside, no matter what mess lay within
~ Celeste Ng
In Chinatowns, the lives of all those paper sons were fragile and easily torn. Everyone's name was false. Everyone hoped not to be found out and sent back. Everyone clustered together so they wouldn't stand out.
~ Celeste Ng
Like a child, she would not see beyond the demolished walls of her soap bubble which had encased her in its iridescence, promising scarves of brilliant colours, perfume, fine stockings, cosmetics, bracelets, rich warm cardigans, petticoats with frills and inset lace. Tablets of soap, bed socks and two handkerchiefs were weapons piercing her with old age.
~ Celia Dale
Blaine, on the other hand, just doesn't seem that reliable. He's the type who would cheat on Barbie with one of those Bratz sluts and then lie about it in the morning, even as Barbie discovered the creepy telltale amputeed boot in Blaine's sofa cushions.
~ Celia Rivenbark