Quotes About Deception

There is nothing that can tear a person to pieces like religious hypocrisy – teaching one thing and practicing another.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

No fundo ela não passara de uma caixinha de música meio desafinada.

Do you know it's a lie? That I didn't dream about you?

Sometimes only a lie can save you.

I am alone in the world and I don't believe in anyone, everyone lies, sometimes even when making love, I don't think one being speaks to another, the truth only comes to me when I'm alone.

Give me your hand. Because I no longer know what I'm saying. I think I made it all up, none of this existed! But if I made up what happened to me yesterday — who can guarantee that I didn't also invent my entire life prior to yesterday?

Arriving back home, I didn't start to read it. I pretended I didn't have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn't know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Por eso el demonio hace grandes esfuerzos para producir en nosotros esa mala tristeza y, para conseguir desalentar al alma y desesperarla, intenta antes que nada perturbarla.

When you find out that everything about your reality is just an illusion, it's hard not to completely shut down.

From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.

Y yo le dije que sí, porque hay momentos en que aunque uno no crea ni en el cielo ni en la vida después de la muerte, es mejor mentir. Le mentí a él y me mentí a mí.

Como su hija, que ni me conocía, su hija que no se atrevió a ser madre pero dispuso de mi cuerpo como si fuera de ella, así como hoy usted, que no vino a saldar una deuda sino a cometer el mismo delito, veinte años después. La mira y repite, usted vino a usar mi cuerpo.

La verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día

That's the trick about denial, isn't it? Once you start lying to yourself, there's no one else to stop you from believing your own bullshit.

if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.

Putin himself has asserted in biographical interviews that one of his main skills is to get people—in this case the Russian people, his audience(s)—to see him as what they want him to be, not what he really is.

OLD AGE AND TREACHERY WILL OVERCOME YOUTH AND SKILL.

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things like, "He ain't much to see, but he looks real good through the bottom of a glass.

Astronomers saw me that way. "Cliff, he's not much of an astronomer, but what a computer hacker!" (The computer folks, of course, had a different view: "Cliff's not much of a programmer, but what an astronomer!" At best, graduate school had taught me to keep both sides fooled.)