Quotes About Deceit

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart's yearning and the mind's keen intuition. In the absence of love, the heart might be deceitful above all things, but profound love was an antivenin that cured deceit.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing an eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no delusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

The woman hurt me. She looked so soft and perfect, like a mannequin made of flesh, flesh all the way through.

All is deceit. Nothing wears a true face or uses a true name. Nothing is as it appears to be, as if the whole universe were busily playing out a function, 'guised in cunning. The mad are sane, the blind can see, the sane are otherwise demented, good is evil, and up, for all I care, is down.

I dislike secrecy intensely... It is deceit, and it deserves no place among the honest and honourable doctrines of Fair War. Secrets are volatile and unstable. They are never stored safely. When they emerge, the mere fact of them can damage the friends and brothers around us.' - Primarch Dorn

Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

But what clouds our view is the Enemy's skill at cropping photos.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

You can put perfume on a pig, but it still stinks!

Malice drinks one half of its own poison.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I realized how fraudulent were its foundations. The belief that I would spend the rest of my time on earth lying to people weighed heavily on me and at such times I gave serious consideration to taking my own life.

First is his ability to turn you from the way you should go and get you sidetracked. The second is the way he works to portray the cross as odious to you, and lastly, that he points you in the direction which leads to death.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

Two faced people say nice things about you to your face, then tell others nasty things about you when your not around.

Fake people will wish you the best, just as long as that best benefits them.

Fake people are like pennies, two-faced and worthless.

I wish everyone knew what a lying piece of sh.. you are.

I hate backstabbing drama starting bi...es.

Backstabbers will almost always seek to gain your trust, and this usually involves some form or flattery on their part.