Quotes About Deception

When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

It just shows--if I may say so--how blind Love is. If this had happened to anybody else, you would be the first to see, on the face of it, that anything like a flirtation between the Lady of the Velvet Case and your husband is one of those hopeless impossibilities that only the wildly imaginative and charming people who have no relation to real life, like yourself, could possibly conceive.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.

You're nothing but a pack of cards!

He thought he saw an Elephant,That practiced on a fife:He looked again, and found it wasA letter from his wife."At length I realize," he said,"The bitterness of Life!"

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him for a psychopath never even know such a door exists.

Going quail hunting is like saying "I'm going fishing," and going to a goldfish bowl and going "Got it!"

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.