Quotes About Lies And Deception Novels & Stories

"Where have you been? I've needed your guidance so desperately." "I have been preparing for this moment," the goddess replied. "Your enemies have created their greatest weapon against you, but they do not understand that their lies will become their undoing." "How can lies be their undoing? The evidence against me looks completely real. Even I'm starting to wonder if somehow I did something illegal without knowing it." "The very perfection of their deception reveals its false nature," Athena explained. "Truth is messy and complicated. Lies are neat and simple. Your enemies have created evidence that is too clean, too organized, too convenient to be real."

“They may be more sympathetic towards that spin on it.” “It’s a lie,” Aislen started shaking her head. “Lies are dangerous because they can easily be proven as being lies, and once exposed, everything we say would then be open for debate. If we lie, we win the war for the Van Helsings. I say the Van Helsings let the cat out of the bag, it’s not our job to stuff it back in there, but rather to win the war against them.”

he said, his voice filled with wisdom, "a relationship built on lies can never truly stand strong. It's like building a house on shaky ground—it's bound to crumble sooner or later. You need to be honest with yourself and with others about what you want and what you're willing to accept." "If this lie matters to you, then accept it and be honest with everyone," he said, his voice filled with wisdom. "It's all about what you want and what you can do. Don't let external pressures dictate your decisions. Be true to yourself, and everything else will fall into place."

Though my mind is still unclear, at least I am now able to breathe properly, and I think that it would be enough for now. -----"White lies are still lies even if you try to justify them, even half-truths are considered lies too. Those who think that these are permissible to tell will end up seeing the world in a different way, which is way dark and different. So, you better learn to think wisely before trying to do so, whether you are ready enough to face all the consequences of using such a powerful curse."-----

[ IN WHICH SHE STARTS A FIRE ] Lies. A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth. Sin lied to me. How do I know? It is the same with what the woman from the open market said, ‘dead people can tell when someone's dead’. And the same thing goes for the living. The living can tell when someone's alive. I can feel Rome. I can feel his claws tugging at my heart as he calls out to me. I can hear him telling me to come to him. I can feel him more closer than ever now. He is lurking at the back of my mind, making it difficult to forget about him. He is telling me he's waiting for me; he's alive.

“And who am I but God’s servant on earth, is he was killed, not once but twice, for being someone other than who he truly was. For lying.” “For being dishonest,” she said. Her tongue felt thick, her lips now without a doubt numb. She wondered if he heard her drunkenness in her words. In the slurring of her sentences or the way her lips refused to respond. And if he would tell on her. If she would be punished. Expelled. Destroyed. She wondered if she should take another drink. “Being dishonest has consequences.” He was watching her. “Deception travels, like a blackening swarm of ravenous flies, landing on the innocent, infecting them, changing them. Coloring them, these innocents, with the si

he protested. Jasmine walked behind him, "I'm just saying, almost everyone is born with traits to deceive others, in small ways and sometimes in ways that can be devastating", she pointed out, "People lie, there's no such thing as a man who speaks only the truth", she said as Zee cleared their throat, she laughed, "Man, woman, non-binary, whatever, no one speaks the truth absolutely. Heck, I know nuns and priests that have lied", she corrected and continued, "If you're saying you would rather choose not to con people, that makes you the biggest confounding conman there is", she stated simply. Bell hummed, "That kind of makes sense", she said agreeably.

Keeping secrets, as well as lying and deception, can destroy a relationship. Sometimes, it makes friendship stronger when you lie to protect them. The question is, how would you conceal the truth? There are no secrets that cannot be unraveled, and there are no lies that cannot be caught. Even the smallest lie can break the biggest trust.

A humorless chuckle slipped his lips. "Love... it's such a foolish emotion. It blinds your senses and put your intelligence to shame. I was young, carefree, and reckless with no care for the consequences of my actions." His eyes glistened with a sheen of tears. "I never once thought my one mistake would come back to haunt me forever."

Why would I risk my husband's wrath after that? To Alton's knowledge, I'd never lied to him. In many ways, I believed he thought himself above my deception. What the great Alton Fitzgerald didn't realize was that I'd been taught to deceive by the best. When I finally broke off my relationship with Oren, it was for one reason: I wanted more of him—his companionship, his adoration, his love. I wanted a life unlike anything I'd ever before known. I wanted it more than I wanted anything else.