Quotes About Deception

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

Monogamy is defined by what it is not, just as much as by what it is," I say, "We couldn't have monogamy without infidelity the same as we couldn't have sad without happy, or down without up. By fucking around in secret, within a relationship defined as monogamous, aren't I just playing the devil in monogamy's Sunday school pageant?

Tyler seriously considered fabricating an outbreak of salmonella in the hors d'oeuvres and an impending locust plague, either of which would require everyone to leave now.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Truth would not let herself be approached too closely by highwaymen; she wore one garment on top of another so that one doubted being able to find her body. How frightening if they had their way and saw that frightful ghost, the truth, before them.

So lange ihr in euren Schulen mit Leuten vom Handwerke nach der vorgeschriebenen Form darüber redet , täuscht euch beide eben diese vorgeschriebene Form , und wenn ihr nur über sie einig seyd , schenkt ihr euch gegenseitig manche Frage, deren deutliche Beantwortung euch beschwerlich fallen dürfte.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!

Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.

Bu durumda olan yaln?zca ben de?ilim. Bütün insanlar umutlar?nda kand?r?l?yor, beklentilerinde aldat?l?yorlar.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.