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Quotes About Deception

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.
~ Charlie Fletcher
So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Delusive hope still points to distant good.
~ Euripides
He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
~ Holly Black
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
He didn't liehe just gave her false hopes~
~ Tanya Gambhir
Trusting anyone can get you killed.
~ Zoë Marriott, FrostFire
How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.
~ Bayode Ojo
In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
~ Anatole France
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.
~ James Russell Lowell
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.
~ Maurice Blondel
Lies are essential to humanity.
~ Marcel Proust
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
~ William Hazlitt
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
~ William Shakespeare
Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.
~ Chris Galford, At Faith's End
Delusion is the greatest barrier of humanity..
~ Simran Shah Khan
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~ Anton Chekhov
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
~ Laurel Lea
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.
~ Tommy Cooper