Quotes About Deception

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

A pale, thin, small woman, perfectly coiffed, perfectly dressed, without makeup, without a single piece of jewelry, ascetic (viperous?) (her heart sullied by the world's contagion?) stands beside Eduardo, making him gigantic: she smiles mechanically.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.

Dialogue is a wolf in sheep's clothing—often pretending to be woolly and vague, actually all teeth and meaning. Even

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Ce matin, l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître.

Ziceam: s? trec neobservat, ascuns adânc, în haina-mi sur?, mustind de taine, de?elat, centaur beat, în suc de mur?. ?i-a?a de bine m-am mascat, c? haina-mi deveni natur?, ?i cenu?iul mi-a intrat în ochi, în nas, în piept, în gur?.

I'm a hoax, a dying boy who's grown wings.

Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.

Wer liebt, ist blind, taub und stumm. Die Liebe verändert den Rhythmus der Tage. Sie macht uns glauben, es sei Sommer, wenn der Herbstregen fällt. Wir spüren mitten in der Sonne Kälteschauer wie im Winter. Sie ist trügerisch und spielt mit uns, dass wir auf das Unmögliche vertrauen...

Svolazza Beltempo : – Quasi sempre ciò che si desidera si avvera, solo che non si sa come né quando, ed è questo che rende i desideri così ingannevoli. Bisognerebbe desiderare solo ciò che si è pronti ad affrontare in qualsiasi momento: è importante rifletterci sopra.

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

I studied the shape of my friend's hands, and how he clasped them. I could smell his skin and hair in the cold air of the church, and stood aching, my face a devout mask stretched over a rotten soul. On

In politics, there are no friends.

Azért még él a szívemben valami reménység. De ha ez is csak áltatásnak bizonyulna, pusztuljon ki még a gyökere is, és pusztuljak el vele együtt én is.

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

La mentira de que instauraría un trono, fantasma inventado por sus enemigos y extrañamente acogido por sus seguidores, había caldeado las pasiones hasta un punto febril.

That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. Richard Bach