Quotes About Deception

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.