Quotes About Deception

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, and then add the accent of nature.

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Falsehood has a perennial spring.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada

Second Fig Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

PIERROT: Of course not. There never was. "Moon's" just a word to swear by. "Mutton!"—now there's a thing you can lay the hands on, And set the tooth in! Listen, Columbine: I always lied about the moon and you. Food is my only lust. COLUMBINE: Well, eat it, then, For Heaven's sake, and stop your silly noise! I haven't heard the clock tick for an hour.

For men that are afraid to die Must warm their hands before a lie; The fire that's built of What is Known Will chill the marrow in the bone.

Een van de dingen die ik leerde tijdens het schrijven van de roman, en ik heb er veel geleerd, was hoe moeilijk het is om nie te hechten aan de valse schijn van waarheid die een geschreven pagina wekt.