Quotes About Deception

Boys are like hillucinations, they aren't there, and they never really were.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

If you're looking for love in these eyes, walk away. I've been blinded before!

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

It is only now that I understand that Love would have no competence without this lie that is a Truth!

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

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.

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

I'm your only one... but what you call monogamy is lying to everyone.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

I can't fall in love with anyone, I make men believe what they want to believe. from Moulin Rouge

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

Don't you see, don't you see, that the charade is over? And all the Best Deceptions and Clever Cover Story awards go to you. So kiss me hard 'cause this will be the last time that I let you.