Quotes About Deception

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Rien d'ailleurs ne rassure autant qu'un masque.

How long, she asked, was this fraudulent stage-show called science to go on producing its 'closer and closer' approximations to an 'absolute and disinterested' truth? How long was the 'déception rationale', the con trick of objectivism to be practiced?

Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.

Legitimacy is the perfect cover

It was now or never. When he was sure that she was engrossed in her work, he quickly took the small bottle of poison from his pocket and poured it into his water flask, making sure that his back was to Morgana. He had to concentrate to stop his hands from shaking; the enormity of what he was doing made him tremble.

If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said. "It wasn't a dream," she told him.

A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.

Lumea se întemeiaz? pe înÈ™el?ciune, iar viaÈ›a este o iluzie. ?i sufletu-i o iluzie. Trebuie, totuÈ™i, s? ai atâta minte ca s? È™tii s? deosebeÈ™ti iluziile pl?cute de cele nepl?cute. În hypocaustum, poruncesc s? se ard? lemn de cedru pres?rat cu ambr?, pentru c? în via?? prefer aromele, nu duhoarea.

even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

No entienden los más las cosas con las que se topan, ni pese haberlas aprendido las conocen, pero a ellos se lo parece

Men verdooft zich met prietpraat en gebruikt ogen en oren niet.

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage."

Ze glimlachte de lach die ik zo goed kende en die nooit uit m'n geest zou verdwijnen. 'Dat gaat wel,' zei ze. 'Met mij ook,' zei ik. We logen, geloof ik, allebei.

Calvin remarks that Satan makes us blind to our sins. Satan knows how to ensnare people in all kinds of traps so well that, according to the Genevan, there is scarcely anyone with an adequate conviction of sin.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into still subtler form.

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks… strike, strike through the mask!

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.