Quotes About Deception

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

We can't always see what other don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.

That's another lie. That's not even his real handwriting. There is nothing about this boy that is neat and careful.

It's because you smiled at me that day in class. A real smile, not the bullshit one you give everyone all the time where your eyes are doing one thing and your mouth is doing another.' 'It was just a smile.' 'Maybe to you.

We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.