Quotes About Deception

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles. MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth. LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors is it well to look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

Dale una máscara a un hombre y te dirá la verdad

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

Nos prometieron que los sueños podrían volverse realidad. Pero se les olvido mencionar que las pesadillas también son sueños.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.

Cuando uno está enamorado, siempre comienza engañándose a sí mismo y termina engañando a otros. Eso es lo que el mundo llama amor

I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.