Quotes About Deception

Sheen said that the communists had failed to convince the world that there is no God. Rather, he quipped, they had succeeded only in convincing the world that there is a Devil.33

The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

Ugly Chicken says she's nice,' the little girl said. Freddie

The Kiss 'I saw you take his kiss!' "Tis true.' 'O modesty!' "Twas strictly kept: He thought me asleep—at least, I knew He thought I thought he thought I slept.

at first I thought you were just using me she said I definitely am. I just wasn't sure for what. Asshole! she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

But it's not real life. It's just America.

In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

It is only an insincere people that can be accused of hypocrisy.

The other half are blissfully unaware that the reality is stranger than science fiction, and that they have been consistently misinformed and lied to by a government that has engineered one of the most successful cover-ups in history.

most of the portraits of Niyazov all over Turkmenistan showed him smiling, though he never looked less reliable, or less amused, than when he was smiling. His smile – and this may be true of all political leaders – was his most sinister feature.

Lom mister,' he said, and winked at me. 'It's the CIA, isn't it? You're an agent, you tell people you're a journalist because that's good cover ...

this land has relied on masquerade for millennia

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones - substitute horizons.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

What we see is not always what exists.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

but this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves.

Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.