268 quotes found
“We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”
“His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.”
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
“See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.”
“Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.”
“A momentary smile appeared on Cogo's face before fading away. No matter how many times he saw it, he was still amazed by how Kuni's sincerity shaded into an instinct for political theater. He was, ...”
“It is better to admit your failure than to live in self deception”
“Now Ravana said to himself, "These are all petty weapons. I should really get down to proper business." And he invoked the one called "Maya"--a weapon which created illusions and confused the enemy...”
“Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.”
“All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.”
“Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago”
“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.”
“The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.”
“Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutu...”
“Some women are good-looking … until they change their hairstyle.”
“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a mor...”
“Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.”
“We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.”
“All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
“You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?”
