Quotes About Deception

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.

mind. So much for Herriot as a judge of character. I couldn't have been more wrong, but Paul had fought his secret battle with a courage which had deceived everybody.

I thought of the object lesson which I thought he had given me, but in fact it was a lesson of another kind and one which I have never forgotten; that there are countless people like Paul who are not what they seem.

You see, they had to convince us that the earth was dead because otherwise they could not begin their autopsy in earnest.

When you make someone promise something, is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

It's easier to believe a lie to avoid the truth, but the real lie is in believing that you can avoid the truth in the first place.

People don't fake depression they fake being ok. Remember that.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow tasked, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow basket, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

Time turns our lies into truths." Who is to say that it was all lies, anyway?

It was not the feeling of losing what made it worthwhile. It was the holding on to something that wasn't real.

Liars make the best promises." But their promises are a lot like impressions. The second one don't count for much.

When it comes down to it. "I've never fooled anyone. I've let them fool themselves.

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow tasket, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

The world lives in a sort of fantasy were everything is supposed to look and be a certain way compared to a standard set by fake magazines, fake tv, fake media of all sorts. We've been completely brainwashed in this way and well this is exactly what happens in the "real" world, and it's only seen by "real" people who haven't been fooled.

Your empty promises.... Are the moments I had to pretend that I was strong and unbreakable while my heart was aching inside.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

If a man could just hang onto one illusion he could still love. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder.