Quotes About Deception

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

My entire life has been a lie.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.