Quotes about Deception

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blase sophistication.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

Anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip."

Satan's strategy is effective because he sprinkles his poisonous brew with just enough veracity that we'll swallow it.

I've been praying for that same kind of discernment lately. I want to recognize the dangerous, potentially biting characters in my story: the people who create constant emotional debris with their destructive personalities or who refuse to shed the skin of deception, the ones who threaten the God-with-me peace in my life. I'm learning to keep my distance and to pray for snakes, but not make a habit of getting down in the dirt to play with them.