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Quotes About Deception

Quería explicar que la gente nunca resultaba ser del todo como uno se imagina que es.
~ William Golding
Nem nagyon segítenek az emberek! Azt akarta mondani, hogy az emberek sohasem pontosan olyanok, mint amilyennek elképzeljük Å'ket.
~ William Golding
What was real seemed illusive and without definition.
~ William Golding
You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something!
~ William Goldman
Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
~ William Goldman
And what have I done? What? WHAT?...You've stolen them. With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who them was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.
~ William Goldman
Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
~ William Goldman
Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.
~ William Goldman
I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
~ William Goldman
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
~ William Goldman
Because there was a limit to just how much you could lie to yourself.
~ William Goldman
Every night for the next year he always said something like that to me: 'Thank you for everything, Westley, good night now, I'll probably kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
We have now decided that the poisoned cup is most likely in front of you. But the poison is powder made from iocane and iocane comes only from Australia and Australia, as everyone knows, is peopled with criminals and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as I don't trust you, which means I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
~ William Goldman
Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.
~ William Goldman
He always avoided arrest, and everyone except Yellin thought Falkbridge must be bribing somebody. Yellin knew he was bribing somebody, since every month, rain or shine, Falkbridge came to Yellin's house and gave him a sarchel full of money.
~ William Goldman
But I don't think you would accept my help, since I'm only waiting up here so that I can kill you. That does put a damper on our relationship, the man in black said then.
~ William Goldman
If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given.
~ William Goldman
Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all. Because without it, truth and reality go right out the window….
~ William Goldman
La vida es puro sufrimiento —le decía su madre—. Y quien te diga lo contrario es porque te quiere vender algo.
~ William Goldman
No creo que aceptarais mi ayuda, porque os estoy esperando para mataros. —Eso constituye un obstáculo en nuestra relación
~ William Goldman
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
~ William Hazlitt
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
~ William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
~ William Hazlitt
Whatsoever is not said in all sincerity, is wrongly said. And not to be able to rid oneself of this vice is only to sink deeper toward perdition. "Those who do evil in the open light of day—men will punish them. Those who do evil in secret—God will punish them. Who fears both man and God, he is fit to walk alone.
~ William J. Bennett