Quotes About Deception

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...

It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.

Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

I rely on you to misrepresent me.

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.

A we wszystkich romansach najgorsze jest to, ?e cz?owiek wychodzi z nich pozbawiony wszelkiego romantyzmu.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

Kiedy si? zakochamy, zawsze najpierw oszukujemy siebie, a na koniec nieodmiennie zwodzimy innych. To w?a?nie ?wiat nazywa romansem.

We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.

The waving of crooked, false-jeweled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.

Bana bunu yok ettiÄŸini söylemiÅŸtin. Yanl?? söylemiÅŸim. O beni yok etti.

But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.