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Quotes About Deception

The man even says that he who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. Does anyone in the real world get away with such cajolery? Deceiver! I only believe in happiness in this world. I'm not afraid of any judgment hereafter.
~ Osamu Dazai
Forget about all the women in the world. I can't even deal with one girl next door and I'm in such pain I feel like I'm going to die. And never mind my superior capabilities—I don't know the first thing about governing a kingdom. And as for people gazing at me in wonderment, well, all they do is deceive me. All that happens is they swindle me. I'm endlessly afraid of people. I am continually awed by them.
~ Osamu Dazai
Yalans?z bir hayat. Bu cümle zaten bir yaland?.
~ Osamu Dazai
Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.
~ Osamu Dazai
This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hundred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start.
~ Osamu Dazai
Nihayetinde, ya?amakta oldu?una göre, mutlaka bir hilen vard?r.
~ Osamu Dazai
You may wish to give the name 'honesty' to what others would call dimwittedness, but leave it to such 'honest men' as yourselves to deceive the world with your fabulous dreams and superstitions.
~ Osamu Dazai
Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña
~ Unknown
Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn't actually exist past the confines of your psyche.
~ Unknown
Lies are very hard to defend, especially when reality is so obvious
~ Unknown
Real life can never have a written lie all over it.
~ Unknown
The devil doesn't come to you with a red face and horns, he comes to you disguised as everything you've ever wanted.
~ Unknown
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
~ Oscar Levant
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
~ Oscar Levant
Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
~ Oscar Levant
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
~ Oscar Levant
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance
~ Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
~ Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
~ Oscar Wilde
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
~ Oscar Wilde
Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.
~ Oscar Wilde