Sue Grafton Quotes

All confrontation is based on deception.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

The world loves to be deceived.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

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

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

The world wants to be deceived.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

I detest those who deceive me.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

Liars often set their own traps.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.