Quotes About Deception

Hence, pageant history! hence, gilded cheat! Swart planet in the universe of deeds!

Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.

Of course," Ignatius said in a thoughtful, serious voice, "this could be a worldwide deception." The red sateen scarf rode up and down. "The next war could turn out to be one massive orgy. Good grief. How many of the military leaders of the world may simply be deranged old sodomites acting out some fake fantasy role? Actually, this might be quite beneficial to the world. It could mean an end to war forever. This could be the key to lasting peace.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.

What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill

Casanova was a librarian.

Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that's what you're doing.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Only the fakes survive.

As California senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917, "The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.