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Deception Quotes
"Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship."
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"She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying."
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"Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception."
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"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."
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"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
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"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude."
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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
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"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity."
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"I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar."
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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."
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"The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
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"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."
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"Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated."
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"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
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"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."
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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."
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"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
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"Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear."
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"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
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"Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this."
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"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."
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"Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge."
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"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."
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