Quotes About Deception

Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)

People are easily deceived—their good and kindly hearts believe it all implicitly, without ever remembering the rule about hearing both sides before we form an opinion.

La vie se joue souvent en deux manches: dans un premier temps, elle t'endort en te faisant croire que tu gères, et sur la deuxième partie, quand elle te voit détendu et désarmé, elle repasse les plats et te défonce.

Life is often a game of two halves: in the first half it lulls you, makes you think you're in control; in the second, when it sees you're relaxed and helpless, it comes around again and grinds you to a pulp.

Jedyna ró?nica miÄ™dzy psychopatÄ… i politykiem - psychopata olewa to, czy stoi po wÅ'aÅ›ciwej stronie. Zabija bez wstÄ™pnych ceregieli, to znaczy nie tracÄ…c czasu na sprowadzanie swojej ofiary do roli potwora. Natomiast politycy robiÄ… to z zachowaniem reguÅ': najpierw propaganda, dopiero potem jatka.

Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Truda Hangnail was smiling, and it was not the sort of smile designed to make anyone feel happy.

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

?nsanlar?n mutluluk, a?k, sevinç olarak adland?rd??? ?eylerin hepsinin yanl?? faraziyeler üzerine kurulu yanl?? hesaplar?n bir birikimi oldu?unu ke?feden herkes, kalbinde sadece korkunç bir bo?luk bulacakt?r.

Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.

Kitleler her zaman böyledir. Belirsizlikten her zaman korkarlar, bu yüzden aç?k bir yalan? ula??lmaz gerçeklere ye? tutarlar.

Ésa es la trampa esencial, aplicar la muerte a los otros por una prórroga perpetua y un aplazamiento. Y eso está justificado por la necesidad de la existencia. Supone perpetuamente este engaño. "Sé que moriré, pero no les creo", dice Jacques Madaule.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is carried on by the departments, chancelleries and General Staffs. Parliament itself is given up to talk for the special purpose of fooling the 'common people.

[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into.

In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was the victim. The victim showed no signs of life before being deprived of it. If anything, the corpse which had to be moved and handled before burial seemed more active than its biological predecessor.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.

Bir toplant? çok say?da insan?n bir araya geldiÄŸi, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte düÅŸünmediklerini söyledikleri, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte yapt?klar?n? söylemedikleri bir düzenlemedir. -Er Ä°van Çonkin'in YaÅŸam? ve OlaÄŸanüstü Serüvenleri

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.