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Quotes About Deception

Dices que tienes corazón, y sólo lo dices porque sientes sus latidos. Eso no es corazón...; es una máquina, que, al compás que se mueve, hace ruido.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
~ Guy de Maupassant
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
~ Guy Debord
At a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.
~ Guy Delisle
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.
~ Guy Standing
It is of course also possible that the attacker is deliberately feinting to draw the parry to bind it, and will strike on the same side if he manages to open the line, or on the other side if not. Feints
~ Guy Windsor
I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as.
~ Gwendoline Riley
She was walking through the streets at midnight because she had a man to meet, she was carrying a gun because she was going to kill him, and she was wearing high heels because she hadn't thought it through.
~ Gwendolyn Zepeda
I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food.
~ Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Akkor változik meg a rendszer, amikor mások kezdenek el hazudni, mint akiket megszoktunk.
~ György Spiró
Orwellibb ez a világ, mint Orwell valaha is képzelte volna. Korántsem megrovólag mondom ezt. Orwelli volt ez a világ mindig, csak soha nem tudták a benne él?k, mindig valami mást, többet képzeltek magukról. De hát ma egészen nyilvánvalóan apokaliptikus id?ket élünk. Az apokalipszis nem misztika: maga a realitás. Feltárul, aminek fel kell tárulnia: a valóságos emberi m?ködés.
~ György Spiró
One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.
~ Gyles Brandreth
And it is characteristic of the devil to be recognized too late.
~ Helene Cixous
I suppose there's always a place for Judas, at any table." *
~ H. Beam Piper
If you don't like the facts, you ignore them, and if you need facts, dream up some you do like
~ H. Beam Piper
Advertising is legalized lying.
~ H. G. Wells
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....
~ H. G. Wells
A trick does not fool the eye but fools the brain. In order to do that, it must be performed so that the secret parts are not noticed.
~ H. Keith Melton
The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.
~ H. L. Mencken
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
~ H. L. Mencken
the less you know the less lies you will tell
~ james hadley chase