Quotes About Deceit

They tell themselves that the alternative is unacceptable: that if they don't support and encourage a man who assaults women and lies instinctively, they will soon find themselves facing the red armies of socialism and the country will start to look like…Sweden. There is nothing new or particularly interesting about this deceit. Republicans are linked to a vast life-support system of lies, terrified that the truth will unplug the machine.

I know what life is. This is not life. This is death disguised as life.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful vicious devil himself to find the truth.

Lies are like fleas hopping from here to there, sucking the blood of the intellect.

show me a Don Juan and I'll show you a loser in disguise.

Brutal duplicity was his coinage. He played his games with little else.

It would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work.

The truth is (in most cases), the most painful thing a person can hear. So why couple that with lies, deceit, and betrayal, and make the person deal with , not only the painful truth but all those other devistating things on top of the already painful truth.

our landlord and landlady. Their house, just outside the town, was quite a little chateau, and the evil that dwelt within its highly polished salons, that reclined on its lace-covered beds, and was coiled deep in the stuffing of its exquisitely upholstered chairs and sofas, was enough to make the blood turn icy in the veins.

Logic is what the devil likes most.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Please. Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit. Baden

Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.