Deception Quotes

When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly at times, but if you hang with them for a while their true colors will eventually begin to show.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.

~ Nancy Freund

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

~ Criss Jami

Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.

~ Criss Jami

In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse she was to remember the alien abduction, so that nobody would believe her account of the ritual abuse. This program did not work with us, but you can imagine the larger consequences of such a ruse.p55

~ Alison Miller

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

~ Frank Herbert

Her words were like tinfoil, they shone and they covered things up.

~ Helen Cross

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

~ Marty Rubin

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman calls it, the meaning response. At least part of the improvement that is produced by these treatments is due to the relationship between the therapist and the client and to the client's expectancy of getting better. That is a problem for antidepressant treatment. It is a problem because drugs are supposed to work because of their chemistry, not because of the psychological factors. But it is not a problem for psychotherapy. Psychotherapists are trained to provide a warm and caring environment in which therapeutic change can take place. Their intention is to replace the hopelessness of depression with a sense of hope and faith in the future. These tasks are part of the essence of psychotherapy. The fact that psychotherapy can mobilize the meaning response - and that it can do so without deception - is one of its strengths, no one of its weaknesses. Because hopelessness is a fundamental characteristic of depression, instilling hope is a specific treatment for it it. Invoking the meaning response is essential for the effective treatment of depression, and the best treatments are those that can do this most effectively and that can do without deception.

~ Irving Kirsch

The genre of self-help for depression is littered with well-intentioned books that overpraise solutions and raise false hopes. It would be nice to defeat your depression in ten easy steps, but rarely is it so easy. Books that overpraise solutions produce frustrated, disappointed and demoralized readers and damage the credibility of experts.

~ Jonathan Rottenberg

I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.

~ Amit Abraham

In order to deceive others, it is necessary also to deceive oneself. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the stage he will usually remember who he really is. On the other hand, when someone's entire life is based on pretense, they will seldom if ever return to reality. That is the secret of successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters—they believe that they are telling the truth, even when they know that they have faked the evidence. Sincerity, my dear Julia, is a quality not to be trusted.

~ Sarah Caudwell

She hated him – she hated everything he stood for. But when they said hate is akin to love they were certainly right. Because she needed him with every fibre of her being. And hard as it was to admit it, that need was only part of what she felt for him. The whole was love – a love which recognised how wrong he was for her, but still clung to him. To everything about him.

~ Emily Arden

Never trust a person whose smile doesn't reach their eyes, chances are they do similar thing when they cry - Just be sure you have that OSCAR ready next time they do this

~ Paul Isaacs

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.

~ Eileen Wilks

Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.

~ Anthony Liccione

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.

~ Emily Thorne

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sylph and Jodi return to my side, each carrying a cloth sack full of chickweed. I wrap my arm around Sylph's waist and give her a quick squeeze. Lesson's over for today. I have something to discuss with Logan.Sounds serious. Jodi wiggles her brows at me.I think that's just Rachel for 'I need to go kiss my boy.' Sylph laughs when I glare at her.

~ C.j. Redwine

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

~ Peter V. Brett

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~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't fall flat to deception, thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge, you are unstoppable!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good bye is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

~ Marilynne Robinson

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense, it is not God.

~ Shannon L. Alder