Quotes about Deception

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Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise f — C.J. Redwine, Deception
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the fir — Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly — Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ — Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard — Nancy Freund, Mailbox: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future. — Shannon L. Alder
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am — Criss Jami
Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken. — Criss Jami, Healology
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believin — Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remem — Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. — Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin. — Michael Bassey Johnson
How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words? — Marty Rubin
Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity — Israelmore Ayivor
Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman call — Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
The genre of self-help for depression is littered with well-intentioned books that overpraise solutions and raise false — Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open. — Amit Abraham
In order to deceive others, it is necessary also to deceive oneself. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe that h — Sarah Caudwell, The Sibyl in Her Grave
She hated him – she hated everything he stood for. But when they said hate is akin to love they were certainly right. Be — Emily Arden, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two