862 Quotes About Deception

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

If the devil is the ultimate deceiver, then words must be the very devil.

Just putting a sign on the road does nothing to change where that road is going.

They are pleased to deceive themselves, as if they deceived Fate at the same time.

Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with.

I tend to think that our arrogance peaks at those times when we think that we can trade truth for our makeshift renditions. But as I think about that a bit more, maybe it’s less arrogance and more outright ignorance.

And yet sometimes he'd lie awake at night imagining Rachel telling her story to a tribunal of all the girls who'd ever rejected him, regaling them about his deceptions, the way he'd pretended to like her when he didn't, the mask of 'niceness' he wore when the truth was he was a selfish, lying piece of shit—and he saw all those girls, Anna at their center, shocked but not shocked, nodding and agreeing that yes, of course, they'd known something was wrong with him all along.

Using covertly acquired information to feign a mysterious psychic bond was a new realm of deception for Ted.

Have we traded the good of mankind for the agenda of our kind?