Quotes About Deceit

Backstabbers are passive-aggressive. Confrontation to a backstabber is like sunlight to a vampire. So when they're threatened, they lash out sneakily.

Insecurity is the reason why Backstabbers are born.

A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.

Great liars are also great magicians.

Lack of accomplishment is one thing; deceit is quite another. Everyone who has followed her career knows that Hillary is dishonest to the core, a "congenital liar" as columnist William Safire once put it. The writer Christopher Hitchens titled his book about the Clintons No One Left to Lie To. Even Hollywood mogul David Geffen, an avid progressive, said a few years ago of the Clintons, "Everybody in politics lies but they do it with such ease, it's troubling."3

He dealt every day with people who believed they weren't happy and who further believed that by committing some crime—theft, murder, deceit, blackmail, even kidnapping—they would find the magic elixir that would transform the perceived misery of their lives into that most desired of states: happiness

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it's this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

It's strange," she started. "What?" Catty asked. "Just that you've never followed the rules before," the woman explained. "And so now I'm wondering, why are you going to follow them when you are dealing with the most deceitful being in creation?" Catty watched the woman leave. What she said was true. Catty hated rules. A slow smile crept across her face. "Thank you," Catty said. First she'd sleep, and then she'd act.

For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations.

Some people are like fake flowers, appear beautiful from a distance but when you go near, you realize how useless they are.

I had to let you go, not because I'm tired of loving you, but because my heart can no longer hold on to this game of deceit.

When you lie, think about how you are hurting the other person. Always be honest. I would rather be hurt with the truth than be deceived with a lie.

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

whole shitload of very dangerous poisons and powerful hallucinogens are hidden behind a lot of mumbo jumbo.

high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently

was crooked as a sidewinder rattlesnake. "So what

Now for many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear. Its children are cruelty and deceit and suspicion germinating in our darkness. And just as surely as we are poisoning the air with our test bombs, so are we poisoned in our souls by fear, faceless, stupid sarcomic terror.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

Every time I say I'm not tired, I end up being tired.

And I might, in order to justify myself, have told her that I loved her. But the confession of that love, apart from the fact that it could not have told Albertine anything new, would perhaps have made her colder to myself than the harshness and deceit for which love was the sole excuse. To be harsh and deceitful to the person whom we love is so natural!

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

I will even not rant about treachery. I was brought up in a sea of treachery and deceit and betrayal. I swam in it like perch in the Nile. I am completely at home in it. I shall not drown.