Quotes About Deception

Smile strained and over-bright, he deemed her honesty sterling.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

was hard to speak the truth in a world where lies were currency.

Biggest liars are being hired and invited in seminars as champion traders and featured as stock market wizard to fool investors

Wer sich um die Wahrheit seines eigenen Lebens betrügt, betrügt sich gewiß auch um die Wahrheit Gottes.

Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you. Already, I can see my epitaph. "Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them.

Intelligence is built on deception. Trust nothing. Not even the mirror.

The most beautiful images are often the least honest.

J'avais cru tout quitter pour vivre mieux, je m'étais trompé... c'était pour mourir plus vite.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Vos sos la mujer araña, que atrapa a los hombres en su tela.

Detrás de la cruz anda el demonio!».

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

Le pire mensonge est de se mentir à soi-même.

you can never really get rid of a lie you've convinced yourself is true.

Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you're with treats you like a stranger?

Ä°nsan bir kere yalan söylemeye baÅŸlad? m? nerede duraca??n? bilmez. (Le Voleur d'ombres)

whole shitload of very dangerous poisons and powerful hallucinogens are hidden behind a lot of mumbo jumbo.

envious laymen had come up with the ruse of claiming their households were monasteries

Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.

Tant de lâcheté et de mensonge me font monter le cœur aux lèvres.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.