Quotes About Deception

Y qué es la verdad? —Respondió José. —Unas veces lo contrario de la mentira; otra veces, lo contrario del silencio.

Vestido azul, que pasará a la historia como el objeto de la primera mentira que le dije a mi novio. La primera de unas cuantas. Mentiras nuevas, mentiras frescas, mentiras recién estrenadas. Me pesan en el estómago como una comida mal digerida. Odio decir mentiras. Me gusta pensar que soy una persona sincera. Me gusta experimentar la fortaleza, la energía que a una le da saber que está diciendo la verdad sin fisuras, sin dobleces, sin ocultamientos.

Me molesta cuando las historias se resuelven como un truco de magia

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

All gold is fool's gold.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf…Martha: I… am… George… I am.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

I soon discovered that all civility is but the mask of design.

we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and be real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot sticks to us … And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors. RAINER MARIA RILKE

The term fraud alludes to a saying of the Buddha which the Mahayanists were fond of quoting: "All conditioned things are worthless, unsubstantial, fraudulent, deceptive and unreliable, but only fools are deceived by them. Nirvana alone, the highest reality, is free from deception." Two classes of facts are here distinguished-the deceptive multiple things on one side, and the true reality of the Absolute on the other.

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!

El oro y amores eran malos de encubrir [Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide].

I must go walk so the wood so wild,And wander here and thereIn dread and deadly fear;For where I trusted I am beguiled,And all for one.

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.