Quotes About Deception

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Adam had unleashed a monster into the world.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Hope, the proven ingredient of Nazi deception, was at its height.

Fulgens hoc aurum praestringit oculos [This gold with its glitter blinds the eyes]. Varius.

The hypocrite is fair to look on. He has a devout eye, but a hollow heart. But he who is sincere, his inside is his best side!

It was a witty fiction of the poets, that when Mercury had cast Argus into a sleep and with an enchanted wand closed his eyes, he then killed him. When Satan has by his witcheries lulled men asleep in sloth, then he destroys them. Some report that while the crocodile sleeps with its mouth open, the Indian rat gets into its belly and eats up its entrails. So while men sleep in security they are devoured.

Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

I definitely smelled a delicious odor of steak and onions. But it turned out to be only a dirty shirt.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

the sting of Maya's betrayal has salted the sting of an earlier betrayal.

Nos enseñan a manipular y a engañar para obtener lo que queremos y, a no ser que sea descubierta, vivimos ocultando nuestra deshonestidad. El gran número de políticos así como de altos cargos de la administración que tienen que afrontar demandas judiciales ilustra esto que estamos diciendo.

O beautiful one, you've robbed the minds of all people.

All friends are but M?ra's tricksters; [10] I'll recognize all sense objects as salt water.61

I am" is but a deception; "I want" is but an appeasement [of ego]; "The other" is but an enemy's word; "I do not want" is a hindrance. 39 "Self and others" are terms of division; "Attachment and aversion" words of conflict; He who makes such distinctions Has become deficient in profound Dharma.

duplicity, and deviousness—toward

The world was built on foundations of lies; upheld by deception to conceal the fruits of life.

I stayed alive for you, and you. But you killed me anyway.

How do you think she got there?" Shane's voice was an unsteady mix of regret and pain. "I found her number in your phone, and I called her. When she got to the house, she called the paramedics. And the police. And sent me to prison." The blood drained from Eva's face. "No." "Ask her," he said gently. "Ask her.