Quotes About Deception

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily...

Una dictadura perfecta tendría la apariencia de una democracia,pero sería básicamente una prisión sin muros de la que los presos ni siquiera sonarían con escapar.Sería esencialmente un sistema de esclavitud,en el que gracias al consumo y el entretenimiento,los esclavos amarian su servidumbre.

Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash-it makes one vomit.

He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash—it makes one vomit.

They pretended they were trying to dissuade people from vice by enumerating its horrors. But they were really only making it more spicy by telling the truth about it. O esca vermium, O massa pulveris! What nauseating embracements! To conjugate the copulative verb, boringly, with a sack of tripes – what could be more exquisitely and piercingly and deliriously vile?

I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.

The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince , a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. What

Los mayores triunfos de la propaganda se han logrado, no haciendo algo, sino impidiendo que ese algo se haga

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

In vain we labour at the loathsome task Not knowing if we wake or sleep ; But in the end we lift the plumèd casque Of the dead warrior ; Find no chaste corpse therein, but a soft-smiling whore.

All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)

Thoughts are false.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.

I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

Cuori piccoli, li nutriamo di grandi illusioni, e al termine del processo camminiamo come discepoli a Emmaus, ciechi, al fianco di amici e amori che non riconosciamo, fidandoci di un Dio che sa più di se stesso. Per questo conosciamo l'avvio delle cose e poi non ne riceviamo la fine, mancando sempre il loro cuore. Siamo aurora ma epilogo, perenne scoperta tardiva.