Quotes About Deception

Cuando se hayan acostado juntos, habrá que buscar otra cosa para ocultar el enorme absurdo de la existencia. Con todo ..., ¿es absolutamente necesario engañarse?

Cómo se puede mentir poniendo a la razón de parte de uno?

Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this

I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.

Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.

Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.

They touch life with gloves on. They're pretending about something all the time. Pretending quite nice and decent things, of course. But still...' 'Everybody pretends,' Marya was thinking. 'French people pretend every bit as much, only about different things and not so obviously. She'll know that when she's been here as long as I have.

If you think I minded, then you've never lived like that, plunged in a dream, when all the faces are masks and only the trees are alive and you can almost see the strings that are pulling the puppets. Close-up of human nature - isn't it worth something?

I drank it and I said, 'It isn't like it seems to be.' - 'I know. It never is,' he said

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Don't you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough?

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It's not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else's.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

My mother had painted the white roses red and now she claimed they grew that way.

Stories are always true... it's the facts that mislead.

Everyone remembers things which never happened. And it is common knowledge that people often forget things which did. Either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it.

So just you take care, what you think is the heart might well be another organ.

What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.