Quotes About Deception

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Hitler's ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.

Before the war I often had the impression of being in the household of a busy architect and building tycoon rather than the Führer and Reich Chancellor.

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

Sometimes the world is too convincing, as if someone spent too much time on it.

I suppose it's easier to kill people if you can pretend to yourself that they're not really people at all.

You've got to have brains to play dumb.

It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.

And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn't believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.

So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming.

I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with

But then, maybe "I don't believe in you" is the cruellest way to kill a monster.

lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another

I sat with my head in my hands, shaking. Because the situation was so much worse than I'd thought. My husband was trying to choose between me, his wife, and someone he had made up. And I, the real woman, the wife, had nothing on the made-up girl. We each had five points in our favour. That son of a bitch.

It was like dancing with a mask that was attached to a stick—she dared not lower it, no matter how tiring it was to hold the mask up. She was the ugly girl at the ball.

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. I'd hide myself away in them, setting two mirrors to face each other so that when I stood between them I was infinitely reflected in either direction. Many, many me's. When I stood on tiptoe, we all stood on tiptoe, trying to see the first of us, and the last. The effect was dizzying, a vast pulse, not quite alive, more like the working of an automaton.

I was always a little disturbed by him because I'd never heard him tell a lie. That was horrifying to me, like living in a house with every door and window wide open all day long.

She thought it something of a mercy for the gullible to die young, as being too often mistaken breaks the spirit.

It's hard to find a woman without tactics. That'll be why I made one up.

She found Safiye leaning against an oil lantern out in the garden and saw for herself that she wasn't the only foolish woman in the world, or even at that party, for Safiye had Lucy's highly polished bangle in her hand and was turning it this way and that in order to catch fireflies in the billowing, transparent left sleeve of her gown.

love of power and his dealing so contemptuously with people once he had fallen out with them.38 In Ulyanov's view, Struve had betrayed orthodox Marxism with the 'bourgeois apologetics' of his conciliatory, legal Marxism. He was nothing but 'a politico, an artful dodger, a huckster, and an impudent boor

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Elijo el júbilo de Dios en lugar del dolor. 1. El dolor es una perspectiva errónea. 2 Cuando se experimenta en cualquier forma que sea, es señal de que nos hemos engañado a nosotros mismos. 3 El dolor no es un hecho en absoluto. 4 Sea cual sea la forma que adopte, desaparece una vez que se percibe correctamente. 5 Pues el dolor proclama que Dios es cruel. 6 ¿Cómo podría entonces ser real en cualquiera de las formas que adopta?

El dolor es señal de que las ilusiones reinan en lugar de la verdad.