Quotes About Deception

Wake me not if this is vision, Let me sleep not if 'tis true.

Any instrument whatever Would be out of tune that sought To combine and blend together The true feelings of the heart With the false words speech expresses.

The king dreams he is a king, and lives in this deception commanding, disposing of, reigning, ruling, And the applause, thus on loan received so gets in the wind written. And in ashes Death will turn him - great disgrace! Who will dare so to govern seeing himself come awake to the sorry dream of Death?

Salen en lo alto de un monte ROSAURA, en hábito de hombre, de camino, y en representado los primeros versos va bajando

Di a los ojos que su música concierten con la voz; porque es forzoso que desdiga y que disuene tan destemplado instrumento, que ajustar y medir quiere la falsedad de quien dice,

BASILIO: Pues antes que lo veas, volverás a dormir adonde creas que cuanto te ha pasado, como fue bien del mundo, fue soñado.

advertid que es baja acción, que sólo a una fiera toca, madre de engaño y traición, el halagar con la boca y matar con la intención.

En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira.

Somos del mismo gremio. -Los dos somos artistas, papi. Cuando bailaba era igual. Yo con mis bailes eróticos. Era la estrella del Palermo. Nadie sabía si era verdad o mentira. Ni yo misma sabía si lo que bailaba era erotismo real o fingía el erotismo. -Igual que yo con mis novelas. Ni yo mismo sé lo que es cierto y lo que es mentira. -Al final todo es verdad. -Uhmm. -Eres una puta, Pedro. Eres tan puta como yo. Vendes una mentira y finges que es verdad.

La realidad no está obligada a ser convincente.

Pero no, Carlos no podía mentirle, no podía haberla engañado con esos ojos tan dulces. Y si lo había hecho, mejor no saber, mejor hacerse la lesa, la más tonta de las locas, la más bruta, que solo sabía bordar y cantar canciones viejas.

Worse of all, I had to live with a terrible secret. I told lies to keep people from finding out what I'd done and then I had to tell more lies to cover up the first ones. Through it all, I felt like scum. I regretted what I had done and I hated pretending all the time but it was too late. - Kit Hathaway

Style is not a replacement for substance, and cannot camouflage a lack of substance.

Another rationalization is that if the spouse never suspects the affair, then no damage is done. This belief ignores the fact that the distance and isolation created by the deception of an affair cause a great deal of damage to the relationship. People become strangers who don't really know each other. This makes a couple vulnerable to all kinds of problems and pressures that can eventually lead to divorce or a deadened relationship.

She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.

Too bad all that beautiful cleavage had to be wasted on a man-eating floozy.

I told him that my father was dead and that to take her mind off it I had told my mother that I was pregnant. I said it had taken her mind off it wonderfully, so far; and that it also happened to be true.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Pjäsen handlade, sa Konungen till mig, om att ondskan funnes i så hög grad hos dessa människor vid hovet att de liknade apor eller djävlar; de gladde sig åt andras olyckor och sörjde över deras framgångar, detta vore det som druidernas tid kallades Kannibalism, Anthropophagie. Därför befunno vi oss bland Kannibaler.

The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave;A dupe and a deceiver; a decay;A traveler from the cradle to the graveThrough the dim light of this immortal day.

I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh

I had rather not have any more of my hopes and illusions mocked by sad realities.

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: