Quotes About Deception

El infierno es una fiesta tan maravillosa, que solo después del primer mes te das cuenta que aquello es un castigo.

No es acaso el amor una asombrosa, y a veces milagrosa, conjunción de patrañas? ¿No es exacto que menos por menos da más?

If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.

And do you think, you fool, added Socrates, that kisses of love are not venomous, because you perceive not the poison? Know that a beautiful person is a more dangerous animal than scorpions, because these cannot wound unless they touch us; but beauty strikes at a distance: from what place soever we can but behold her, she darts her venom upon us, and overthrows our judgment.

Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.

Those who do not know themselves and are totally deceived about their own abilities are in the same position whether they are dealing with other people or any other aspect of human affairs.

your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously;

he should have the craft to appear absent when close at hand, and within striking distance when a long way off;

But over and beyond all that can be written on the subject—inventiveness is a personal matter, beyond all formulas—the true general must be able to take in, deceive, decoy, delude his adversary at every turn, as the particular occasion demands. In fact, there is no instrument of war more cunning than chicanery;

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

The men nodded vigorously at me. When they took hold of me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it. I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you utilize a fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing, omitting, and obscuring is your forte.

Ruling classes have always sought to instill in their subordinates the capacity to experience exploitation and material deprivation as guilt, while deceiving themselves that their own material interests coincide with those of mankind as a whole.

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Opportunity makes thieves." What

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.

There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Giorno per giorno vedo la gente affollarsi nei teatri e nei cinematografi, e so che per la metà delle volte, e anche più, vanno a una ricerca cieca, e credono di essere soddisfatti mentre in realtà vengono pasciuti di miseri gusci vuoti. E la parte più triste di tutto questo è che se ci si immagina di essere soddisfatti dei gusci, non rimarrà più appetito per il buon grano.

Sometimes I thought Truth had vanished from the earth," he cried bitterly. "Like everything else, it was rationed by the governments.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar's paradise