Quotes About Deception

Oh, man, man—race of crocodiles

falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

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Une illusion de moins, c'est une vérité de plus.

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the marquise had often said that there are means to get rid of people one dislikes, and they can easily be put an end to in a bowl of soup.

Definitivamente el vino es un traidor, que hace ver visiones.

I do believe, Albert, that you are quite set this morning on feeding me with illusions. 'Ah, you must admit that's the diet that best satisfies the stomach.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all these illusions destroyed.

Ce sont les illusions qui rendent les douleurs amères et inguérissables.

Alexandre Dumas

Ogni falsità è una maschera, e per quanto la maschera sia ben fatta, si arriva sempre, con un po' di attenzione, a distinguerla dal volto.

rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

ah, you are playing with me, like those good, or rather selfish mothers who soothe their children with honeyed words, because their screams annoy them.

lisonja? Lo cierto era que la cuestión

The eyes of a woman who loves are not easily deceived.

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was concealed, was brisk and dry. His little gray eyes shone like carbuncles, and appeared, with his grinning mouth, to be the only part of his face in which life survived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony

the pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow--of

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.

You knew and you've been laughing at me.' 'No.' 'Standing by and shaking with laughter.' 'Standing by and loving you.

If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.

Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people care when a poet dies a poem is a conscience a report card, a confession: today my lies were a motor that spun the Earth how can you get truth from a hill when I am the continent that drifts? how can I taste what I'm mourning when soon everything will be salt from the sea?

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.