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Quotes About Deception

Compreender um ao outro É um jogo complicado. Pois quem engana não sabe Se não estava enganado.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Cuando el gobierno dice que hay que perseguir los bulos, debería empezar por sí mismo
~ Fernando Savater
I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to commit myself to the folly of looking at them. In any event and in all politeness -nothing would be further from me than to insult a guest- I deem the point you have made as unimportant because there is surely nothing in the old world to prevent a deceitful kangaroo from shaving the fur from her legs, assuming she is a woman?
~ Flann O'Brien
Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.
~ Flann O'Brien
Pon a un ladrón entre hombres honrados y acabarán quitándole el reloj.
~ Flann O'Brien
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Two things I can't stand, Haze said, ---a man that ain't true and one that mocks what is.
~ Flannery O'Connor
his mind had frozen around his grandfather's treachery as if he were trying to preserve it intact to present at the final judgment.
~ Flannery O'Connor
A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda siempre entre las manos
~ Flaubert Gustave
Uostalom, ništa i ne vredi tražiti; sve je laž! Svaki osmejak skriva zevanje od dosade, svaka radost neko prokletstvo, svako uživanje odvratnost prema njemu samom, a i najbolji poljupci samo vam ostavljaju neku neostvarljivu želju za kakvom višom nasladom.
~ Flaubert Gustave Flaubert
It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
~ Christoph Waltz
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
~ Duane Michals
The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.
~ Steve Erickson
I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
~ Mark Frost
We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.
~ Apollo Robbins
Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
A fault is fostered by concealment.
~ Virgil
I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
~ Mason Cooley
I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
~ Aldrich Ames
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
~ Holly Near
His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
~ Arthur Baer