Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

,Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé...

I’m outraged not only by his own deception, but his efforts to enlist players and assistant coaches in this scheme,

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

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....

I looked at Mum and realized — twang! — that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something...

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

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

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...

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.

You get what you give,” we will tell his sorry, selfish ass.” The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.”But,” I demur, “it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a...

From Colin A. Ross, 1995: The writer is the brother of the man who co-founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. He is writing to WGBH about a program called ‘Divided Memories’, which you may have...

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.