Quotes About Deception

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven hundred dollars and, like so many leaders, proved exceedingly difficult to follow.

Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble

She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

BEAUTY: Bogus? What is bogus? THE VOICE: That, too, you will discover in this land. You will find much that is bogus. Also, you will do much that is bogus.

Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

What was in the bags?" she asked softly. "Florida mud," he answered. That was one of two true things I told you.

The room rang full of her artificial laughter.

Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.

Dresses well. Pretends that dress is superficial—but knows that it isn't. 3.

He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.

the snow of twenty-nine wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.

Elle était incurablement malhonnête. Elle ne supportait pas d'être mise en échec et, pour compenser cette fragilité, je pense qu'elle s'était exercée à mentir dès son plus jeune âge, afin de présenter au monde un sourire d'insolence glaciale tout en cédant aux exigences de son tempérament avide et cynique.

Basil, is that you? No, mother, it's a burglar.

You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption—and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.

Ce qu'il attendait de Daisy? Qu'elle aille trouver Tom et lui dise: Je ne t'ai jamais aimé. Rien de moins. Ayant ainsi, d'une seule phrase, réduit trois années de sa vie à néant.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there's something in that voice of hers….

Au moment précis où sa voix s'éteignait, sans plus chercher mon attention, ni vouloir me convaincre, j'ai su que rien de ce qu'elle avait dit n'était vrai.

Tu orgullo es lo único que posees, y si dejas que lo manipule un hombre que tiene que manipular una docena de orgullos antes de almorzar, estás aceptando un montón de decepciones que un profesional hecho y derecho ha aprendido a evitar.