"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

Deception, Lying, Words

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

Exlpore more Deception quotes

"There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Deception, Lying, Books, Numbers, Home

"There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Deception, Art, Learning, Identity

"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Deception, Fiction, Lies, Politicians, Reward

"The darkness always lies."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Deception, Darkness, Lies, Truth

"Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then - and this is the important bit - do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Deception, Strategy, Violence, Irony

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Deception, Profit

"What would you think if I told you that I wasn't an Allomancer? Sazed asked."I'd think that you were lying, Vin said."Have you known me to lie before?"The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Deception, Truth, Lies, Trust, Perception

"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Deception, Truth, Regret, Power, Life

"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."

Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician

Deception, Lying, Promise

"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."

Edward V. Lucas, American Writer

Deception, Nothing

Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

Labor

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

Education

"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."

Finance

"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

Money

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."

Art

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

Duty

"Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape."

Art

"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."

Being

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."

Religion

"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."

Art