Quotes About Deception

I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [ Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose )] himself calls the daughter of God, should put forth such a statement as ... where she says by way of a proverb that "in the war of Love it is better to deceive than be deceived." And indeed I dare say that in making that statement Jean den Meun 's Reason denied her Father, for the doctrine He gave was altogether different.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Nëse do të bashkoheshin të gjitha gënjeshtrat që thonë gratë gjatë aktit seksual, atëherë do të ndodhte një shpërthim, i cili do të trondiste botën.

Përsosmëritë që kërkojmë nga njëri-tjetri në tërësinë e tyre janë kaq të tmerrshme, saqë vetëm gënjeshtrat mund të na ndihmojnë që t'i ruajmë ato.

Seksi shkon shumë mirë me gënjeshtrat.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Tied to the physical, deaf to the eternal, riveted by my own shortcomings, I was thinking only of what a bad choice I'd made when choosing a partner for a chat. This guy was faking timidity to lure someone over. If I said victim, he was likely to start gnawing my neck. If I said vampire, he would demand proof. I hadn't the fangs enough to back that pretension.

A lot of perception is a con job.

The "Sea of Lies" article in Newsweek (July

Philip K. Dick could have been Japanese. He seemed to know a lot about how the world is never what it looks like. That's pretty much Japan through and through.

Stealing is the worst kind of cheating. It's cheating at life, son. It's for folk that arenae any good at life, so they have to cheat.

I mean, I've known you a few days longer than she has and I don't fucking trust you." "Yeah, but you're paid not to trust me." "I wouldn't trust you in my spare time either.

The hand doesn't need to be quicker than the eye if the eye is looking in the wrong place. Everything the magician does is about misleading the audience, everything: how he stands, where he looks, where he points and especially what he says. He will never be doing what he says he is doing, and if he tells you what he's about to do, he's lying.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.

MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our touches of vanity That manage to betray us.

You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Es gibt tatsächlich Weiber, die uns die Rosen ihrer Reize durch die Dornen ihrer anmaßlichen Dummheit verleiden, so dass gar keiner mehr danach greifen mag.

Noch sind wir in der tiefsten Tiefe nicht korrupt genug, um Schein und Sein, Außen und Innen unwillkürlich bei jeder Auffassung getrennt zu halten, so daß wir, wenn sich uns eine Fassade zeigt, wirklich nur eine Fassade und nicht mehr annehmen würden. Die Wahrnehmung des Menschen ist produktiv und ergänzend.

Kunst ist dazu da, die Wirklichkeit zu verhindern...

He was not a realist, and I wasn't either, and we both knew that the others in all their triteness were realists, stupid as puppets which touch their collars a thousand times without ever discovering the string they are dangling on.

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