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Quotes about Deception

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
— William Faulkner
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
— William Faulkner
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...
— William Faulkner
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
— William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
— William Faulkner
Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
— William Faulkner
Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.
— William Faulkner
Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
— William Faulkner
Al ÅŸunu, diyorum, çikolatay? ona vererek. ÖnlüÄŸümü ç?kar?p o yana geçtim. Baya?? güzeldi. Hani ÅŸu kara gözlüler vard?r ya, bir aldatacak olsan b?ça?? saplayacak gibi görünürler, onlardand?.
— William Faulkner
Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.
— William Faulkner
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
— William Golding
Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
— William Hazlitt