Quotes About Deception

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

It made me think of Penelope waiting for Odysseus—Penelope at her loom, not missing a trick, lumpen suitors everywhere.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

By appearing to regard the city's interests, or its freedom and its empire, as immeasurably more important than justice and, indeed, as the most important of all concerns, Diodotus succeeds in making himself trusted. And this success is dependent, of course, upon lying and deception.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more.

A lot was spoken but nothing was said.

Truth is only what people want to believe and nothing more.

si una mentira se repetía con la frecuencia suficiente, hasta los que sabían que era una mentira la consideraban pronto como si fuese verdad.

In My Secret Life I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, I didn't do it. Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

There is no such thing as truth," explains Hitler, "either in the moral or in the scientific sense." Or as Goebbels puts the point: "Important is not what is right but what wins.

Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ...so liars beware

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude." "Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The greatest deception men [and women] suffer is from their own OPINION.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

Jugaban ingenua y burlonamente al amor, sin sospechar lo más mínimo que eran cómo actores que, en broma, habrían al día siguiente de representar una tragedia

And what kind of a liar is he who can fool only others? To lie to oneself and believe it—that is an art!

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

She respects him as a father! And she will cheat on him like a husband!

It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you." ? David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary