Quotes About Deception

Eve was framed.

I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.

Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Garry Essendine]: That is no prostitute, but the wife of one of my best friends!

Esta Pérsia parecia tentar fazer de cada homem um cornudo, à vez

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

What's a handshake after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl.

An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.

The basic beer ad: big-breasted babes in bikinis. Beer won't get you babes. But if you drink enough, you think they're babes, and if you drink more, you can grow your own breasts.

The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie.

But while I remained ignorant of there never having been such a tiling as human self-effort or human independence, I had not realized that all my own efforts to live a victorious life were really Satan expressing himself as me.

One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you're interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it's time to start feeling in your purse for carfare.

when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.

No todo lo que brilla ha de ser oro: siempre oíste decir al mundo a coro. Ha vendido su vida mucha gente por mirarme por fuera solamente: no hay tumba de oro sin gusano y lloro. Si fueras tan sensato como osado, joven de cuerpo y viejo en buen sentido, tal respuesta no habrías recibido: adiós: tu pretensión ha fracasado

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best