Quotes About Deception

el dolor es una ilusión; el júbilo es real. 4 El dolor es dormir; el júbilo, despertar. 5 El dolor es un engaño, y sólo el júbilo es verdad.

lo que vemos no es real.

A glass devil is a person in whom evil becomes transparent. People simply don't see it, despite the fact that it's there all the time.

I went down to Chemical—and after asking to see everything but my teeth, they cashed {my cheque}. Nothing infuriates me like those friendly, folksy bank ads in magazines and on TV. Every bank I ever walked into was about as folksy as a cobra.

Realiteit is slechts de meest voor de hand liggende fictie.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Truth is simple. They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.

We deceive ourselves a good deal about love. It is almost never what they say it is.

Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a new person, another person. To hate life worse than it hated me. To sin so as not to die.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Extending his hands from his bed, Plume was astonished not to feel the wall: "Well," he concluded, "the ants must have eaten it away." And he went back to sleep. Shortly thereafter, his wife shook him awake: "Take a good look, lazybones! While you were so busy sleeping, someone went and stole our house!" And indeed, stretching out on every side there was nothing but solid sky. "So it goes," he thought.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Thor spake: "In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....