Quotes About Deception

It was too easy to camouflage selfish impulses by invoking a higher cause as the real cause.

Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the gross trickery behind the Manhattan Company.

My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.

So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth.

SCRIPTURE OFTEN WARNS ABOUT spiritual deception (Matthew 7:15-23; 24:5; 2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:8; 1 John 4:1). God obviously does not want people to be deceived. This is one reason a study of the cults is important.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

If politics were a musical, it would be Promises, Promises.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I picture is worth 1000 denials.

Para ser, tenemos que narrarnos, y en ese cuento de nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

El amor es una mentira, pero funciona.

la memoria es traidora, débil, mentirosa.

Nadie se resignaba ya a ser en parte bueno y en parte malo, como siempre habían sido, sino que, enardecidos por la grandilocuencia de sus propias mentiras todos querían hacerse pasar por puros y perfectos.

Because my memory is a lie." "Mine, too. All memories are lies. We all invent the past. Do you think my parents were really the way I remember them today?

El amor era a menudo el caballo de Troya que permitía el triunfo del enemigo interior.

Los recuerdos no son siempre lo que parecen.

Los recuerdos no son siempre lo que parecen.

Porque el mentiroso que consigue copiosas alabanzas y pingües beneficios con sus mentiras prefiere creer que no está mintiendo y que todo lo que ha obtenido es merecido.

cuando nosotras creemos enamorarnos de alguien, enseguida enumeramos, como origen de nuestro entusiasmo, un espejismo de virtudes sin fin que le suponemos a esa persona

nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

Parece mentira que el fin de un espejismo amoroso que tal vez sólo ha durado unas semanas pueda sumirte en semejante infierno.

Porque antes he dicho que a los escritores, en especial a los novelistas, nos encantan los impostores; pero es que además creo que tenemos una notable tendencia a sentirnos un fraude.

Within the face, woman concealed one of her most potent and treacherous weapons, her tongue.

cuckold. I am a cuckold. I have been cuckolded.