Quotes About Deception

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

But how can you keep watch on a woman? A woman can fool herself, not to mention others.

There's nothing left holy in the world for you. Herods!

My whole testimony was a lie.

Comprendí en los días que pasé con él que el malvado es, en verdad, un ser ruin que no tiene el valor de mirar a la cara a sus víctimas, que prefiere confiar a otros la odiosa tarea de infligir sufrimiento.

Porque el poder es llevar una máscara.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Somebody said there are three kinds of lies: black lies, white lies, and statistics.

You can probably make them do anything for you: Sell people things they don't need; make women who don't know you fall in love with you.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

More are taken in by love than by cunning.

Le monde est un grand bal où chacun est masqué.

A arte de agradar é a arte de enganar.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

Our side has agents. Their side has spies.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

People tell me I look skinny when they want something from me. What does she want from me?

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That's when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.

As you learn to fight, you learn to defend yourself from physical harm. You acquire a powerful self-preserving skill set, and a specific attitude. This attitude carries across to other aspects of your life. So that you can defend yourself from other less tangible but far more dangerous things that can break you—not just your body, but your spirit. Things such as deception, corruption, disparagement, coercion, false accusation and persecution. Subtle evil things that undermine you.