Quotes About Deception

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

A general must be a charlatan.

Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stagehands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed.

Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

he was an awesome marine as a person he is a scam i know he try to scam me out 4800 but he didn't get nothing

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love.

Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

Oleh karena dunia penuh dusta, ia harus membayar harganya dengan kematian.

A successful prostitute was better than a misled saint. All women are victims of deception. Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words

I am always fascinated when people talk about "the forging of a nation." Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

Organized religions are just elaborate con-tricks. Take the Christian religion from which yours is an offshoot: "Obey me throughout your life, give me the product of your labour, and you will go to Paradise when you die. Disobey me and you will go to Hell and burn forever. Of course I cannot prove that this is what will actually happen – you just have to have faith." That was a good one, and it worked well enough in a society that still believed the Earth was flat.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. —Herman Wouk

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. —Will Rogers