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Quotes About Deception

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
All that glitters is not gold, and things that look warm are often cold!
~ Yassine Aumerally
Lie is the biggest poison for Love
~ Yassine Aumerally
La política era algo que se había centrado en el ego, como una nube que parece sólida pero en realidad no es otra cosa que vapor.
~ Yehuda Berg
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
But, to begin with, I am incapable of jokes, for every joke contains a lie as an implicit function.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I simply can't make jokes - the default value of every joke is a lie.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
~ Yiyun Li
For some people a façade is necessary even with friends
~ Yiyun Li
Who can say to love doesn't also mean to disappoint and to deceive? I said.
~ Yiyun Li
I cannot give without questioning my motives. Does giving have to do with generosity, or with the selfish comfort it brings? The self-deception it offers, when the truth is one has little, or nothing, to give? If one keeps giving, will one be good enough to be loved one day?
~ Yiyun Li
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
~ Yogi Berra
The truth is an accepted lie.
~ Yoram Kaniuk
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
~ young edward
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The Fool or Knave that wears a title, lies.
~ young edward iv
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
~ young edward iv
I'm not too big on religion ... and not very fond of politics or economics either ... And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
~ young wm paul
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.
~ young wm paul ii
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
~ Youssou N'Dour
You don't have to pay tax on bullshit
~ Yu Hua
Benim endi?em ?u ki, kand?rmak aleni bir ?ekilde insanlar?n ya?am ?ekli haline geldi?inde, bu ister bir ki?i olsun, ister bir ülke, herkes aldatman?n kurban? haline gelir.
~ Yu Hua
Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person we love is not the same as loving her true self, for we are only apt to regard her physical beauty as the indispensable mode of her existence. When time and space intervene, it is possible to be deceived by both, but on the other hand, it is equally possible to draw twice as close to her real self.
~ Yukio Mishima
No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.
~ Yukio Mishima