Quotes About Deception

Every shut-eye ain't sleep and every good-bye ain't gone.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer.

Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The theory that, since the sky rockets following a wallop in the eye are optical delusions, the wallop itself is a delusion and the eye another.

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws.

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.

Courage is fire, bullying is smoke.

I used to think you took my breath away, but then I realised I was just suffocated by your bullshit. Rainbows always come after the darkest storm.

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses (Proverbs 27:6).

To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —SAUL BELLOW

Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion

Thoughts and emotions replace reality with illusion. Both are subject to exposure by truth

True understanding is understanding the illusion

Find the truth and spread the lie.

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

Parenthetically, in the West's current war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, it would be good for the leaders to remember this "Islamic tactic of warfare." According to this "religious" doctrine of Islam, what Muslims say does not have to be true— after all, to them, "War is deception." And the end justifies the means.

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Some of his blood splattered into Munita's glass of wine. I didn't tell her. She was having red anyway.