Quotes About Deception

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Woorden kunnen nietige stukjes arsenicum zijn: ze worden ongemerkt ingeslikt en lijken geen uitwerking te hebben, maar na enige tijd is de gifwerking er toch.

The never ending alarms, the never ending phrases, the never ending hanging out of flags, now in triumph, now in mourning—it all produces apathy. And everyone feels helpless, and everyone knows he is being lied to, and everyone is told what he has to believe

Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

Beauty is a mute deception.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.