Quotes About Deception

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces.

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces. Invade como ayuda, pero deja cenizas por donde pasa y muertes por doquier. La paz se vuelve hipócrita, los mansos no le sirven. Agrede a los otoños y les pisa las hojas. Y por si fuera poco, su razón de ser tiende a la sinrazón.

La estricta realidad me aburre, y el arte me parece hábil, pero nunca eficaz, nunca legítimo. Tan sólo un ingenuo recurso que ciertos tipos desengañados, sinvergüenzas o melancólicos usan para mentirse o, lo que es peor aún, para mentirme. Y no quiero mentirme. Quiero saber todo acerca de mi mismo.

le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma».

Quizá sea, después de todo, el más hipócrita, ya que no hace nada por zafarse.

Era mentira, pero ambos comprendimos que hacía bien mentir.

En el fondo el olvido es un gran simulacro nadie sabe, ni puede -aunque quiera- olvidar

They were no lovers; they were, apparently, husband and wife.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Las mentiras machacadas día y noche se vuelven verdades.

Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

how monstrous the people you loved could be.

Fiksie verg nou eenmaal 'n gedeeltelike verdoeseling of vervalsing van feite, anders is dit nie meer fiksie nie.

one again, even if it was a painted smile. Sometimes a painted smile was the only one you had.

I found a number and hit the call button. Heard ringing, a click. "Greetings, Franco," said a smooth male voice. "Is it done?" Fuck no, and fuck you , I almost said, and hung up.

because I don't want him to know but because I don't want Alexander to know. Perhaps part of the reason for my discomfort lies there; I don't like to see a fiercely strong and independent man like Boyd acting as a mouthpiece for a snake like

A deception of cosmic proportions is coming. It won't be just a false doctrine, a defective world-view, or one of the tragic "isms" so prevalent today. It will include a comprehensive global leadership backed by supernatural powers and capabilities that will overwhelm the imagination of the world at large. And it will be authenticated by miracles—great signs and lying wonders.

appear to be the subjects of a major cosmic deception. Let's examine our entire predicament more carefully. Our individual personal destinies may depend upon our diligence.

What kind of deception could deceive even the very elect?

Why do the wicked attract us so? What hint of glamour, hope for material gain, or assumption of fleeting happiness do they radiate, that we can find ourselves so easily, fatally taken in?

You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

you don't get laid or elected telling the truth.

It's the 'big lie' theory: tell a big lie, and tell it often—and attack anyone who calls it a lie.