Quotes About Deception

I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

Snakelike butt-coverers, the whole lot of them.

Treason, my dear, is often simply a matter of perspective. Emily

for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.

That's why I ca never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

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.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Listen, child—if you're at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he'll be the last one you'd suspect.

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician—but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

We believe what we see.'...What do you do when you're in the dark?

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. (1.8.4)

tout compte fait, je crois que mon tort était de ne pas avoir eu le courage de mes convictions. Je pouvais me trouver toutes les excuses du monde, aucune d'elles ne me donnerait raison. En réalité maintenant que j'avais perdu la face , je me cherchais un masque. Pareil à un défiguré, je me cachais derrière mes pansements qui me servaient aussi de moucharabiehs. Je regardais en cachette la vérité des autres, en abusais pour distancer la mienne

Elle aurait dû m'avertir. Je n'admets pas qu'elle m'ait trahi en secret.

Les femmes sont séduites par les hommes effroyables parce que les hommes effroyables ce présentent masqués comme au bal. Ils arrivent avec des mandolines et des costumes des fête.