Quotes about Deception

True enemies are better than false friends.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

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.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.