Quotes About Deceptive

Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good.

The cold, like the darkness, can become a deceptive comfort you never want to leave.

Life the way we live it has set up a change for the worse among almost everybody, bringing in luxury and pleasures, and countless deceptive techniques for always getting more and more, to that end

For we are all in some way or other kept asunder by our secrets; and instead of seeking through confession to bridge the abysses that separate us from one another, we choose the easy by-way of deceptive opinions and illusions.

First impressions can be tricky things, for they can be both shallow and lasting, all at once.

Look what the cat dragged in." He was playing to the audience. Never good. "Is he talking to me or you?" Curran asked. His voice was deceptively light. "I don't know," I said. "But I'm sure he'll get around to telling us.

probability is a truth, known however through insufficient grounds, the knowledge of which is therefore deficient, but not deceptive [...]

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

So supportive. So duplicitous. So self-destructive. Like a moth to a flame.

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant.

American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.

the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

My dad was a quiet assassin. He was really charming and smiley and softly spoken, but he could knock you out in a second.

If manta rays are going to be harmless, they should look more harmless, Pardee thought. Fuckers look like aquatic Draculas.

The pair of them were again in the eye of a storm of misery - their world was a storm of misery and they were caught in its center, in the deceptive stillness that had allowed them to forget, once upon a time, that all around them was a stinging whirl of hatred that would catch them - it was everywhere and everything and they'd been fools to think they could leave their small safe place and not be caught in that vortex like every other living creature in Eretz.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

The way to succeed is giving people a noble reason to do something despicable. And my patients... my clients, my characters are doing kind of scamming, deceptive things but they're doing them for noble reasons. Typically to be loved, to be accepted, to trick someone into embracing them and care for them.

The ship's barber, another specialist, was deceptively named because trimming beards

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.