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Quotes About Deception

Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Like all stories, it has pieces which are true, and pieces which are fiction. Nothing is ever really what it seems. Remember
~ Jennifer McMahon
We don't know the terrible things that are coming our way," she said as she looked down at the cut crystal, her eyes teary. "We just see the shiny surface, our own beautiful selves reflected in it. Not the monster lurking beneath.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes feel true to us even if they are not.
~ Jennifer Niven
We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it" -Mr. Embry
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes things feel true to us even if they're not
~ Jennifer Niven
We can't always see what others don't want us too. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.
~ Jennifer Niven
We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.
~ Jennifer Niven
A: Anyone who looks like she does has to be somebody... B: What does she look like? A: An ice cream. I had a spoon I would have eaten her.
~ Elmore Leonard
Whether you're faking one or the other it isn't worth the state you get yourself in.
~ Elmore Leonard
Our problem is not that we desire happiness. No, our problem is that we continue to foolishly believe that we can attain it apart from him. We think that if we just try hard enough, the next time we'll get it right (whatever it is) and we'll be happy. Instead of pushing through to the true source of all joy and happiness, we sinfully believe the false promises of lesser gods.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
~ Emanuel Lasker
Le soleil mentait, quand il se couchait si doux et si calme, au milieu de la grande sérénité du soir.
~ Émile Zola
He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.
~ Émile Zola
After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy
~ Émile Zola
Al principio, pretendía aprovechar las ocasiones, a fé de buena ama de casa: luego, se dejaba llevar por la coquetería: al final, se la comían viva.
~ Émile Zola
On m'a soufflé mon dernier coin de soleil : C'est de la farce.
~ Émile Zola
Was für Schurken, diese ehrbaren Leute!
~ Émile Zola
Mais dites-vous bien une chose: une femme vous roulera toujours quand elle voudra en prendre la peine.»
~ Émile Zola
Like certain devotees, who fancy they will deceive the Almighty, and secure pardon by praying with their lips, and assuming the humble attitude of penitence, Thérèse displayed humility, striking her chest, finding words of repentance, without having anything at the bottom of her heart save fear and cowardice.
~ Émile Zola
Both women, looking different ways, kept shrugging their shoulders and asking themselves how the deuce the other could tell such whoppers!
~ Émile Zola
Understanding dawned in the Witherspoon's eyes. "Of course, of course." He forced himself to laugh. "You are very clever Mrs. Jeffries. You're onto me.
~ Emily Brightwell
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
~ Emily Bronte