Quotes About Deception

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

She is like a monkey virus and will infect you and bleed you dry after you've given her too much personal information, and no reaction, word or deed from Courtney Love should surprise anyone.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

It isn't that I haven't been able to write at all. In fact, during the time I was supposed to be writing my book, I was crafting fabulously witty and flirtatious emails to Boyfriend, all while telling friends and family and even Boyfriend that I was busy writing my book. I was like the closet gambler who gets dressed for work and kisses his family goodbye each morning and then drives to the casino instead of the office.

Remy didn't suggest an ounce of discourtesy, but only had a different way of talking. It's something Chester'd learned, how a person's words did not always disclose the intention of his heart. He'd been called fine things by people who feared and loathed him, and slanderous things by people who thought well on him but were ignorant.

He'd left her stranded in front of three hundred wedding guests, wearing a white dress and glass slippers like some deranged Cinderella, while he caught a plane to the Cayman Islands with a knock-kneed stripper named Chrysanthemum Greene and several million dollars embezzled from the Stardust Savings and Loan.

found him in our bed with Mallory, wearing my favorite cowboy hat." "Wait a minute, who was wearing your favorite cowboy hat, Mallory or the dude." "The dude, but he was wearing it on his Johnson." "Eww. Low class.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.