Quotes about Deception

Just as a dog which is compelled to walk on two feet has every instant a tendency to go again on all four, and does so as soon as it sees its chance, waiting only to see its chance, so is Christendom an effort of the human race to go back to walking on all fours, to get rid of Christianity, to do it knavishly under the pretext that this is Christianity, claiming that it is Christianity perfected.

Numbers are the most dangerous of all illusions

The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

You can always tell a liar, for he will not look at you when he speaks, and often he has white spots on his fingernails, one to mark every lie he's told.

She had the ability to spot a liar, except for the lies spoken by someone she loved. That's what had caught her up; she'd been distracted by love, which seemed, at least at the time, to be the truest thing in the world.