Quotes About Deception

Life is full of FAKE PEOPLE, trust No One.

Victory is a political fiction.

Leave a log in the water as long as you like: it will never be a crocodile.

The lie has seven endings.

Cucullus non facit monachum [The cowl does not make a monk].

Don't hang noodles on my ears.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.

On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.) The Case of the Seven of Calvary

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere.

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

Y no hay solución, porque ni siquiera sospechas que tu percepción está deformada, que piensas de manera equivocada, que tus creencias son falsas.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

It's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.

Or maybe the stone was never real at all. Maybe it was all hoax, all story.

Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.

Ce n'est pas la réalite.

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I hear they give out poisoned chocolate.

Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.

Everyone is asleep or pretending to be.

He feels ragged. For weeks logic has been failing him. The stone the museum has asked him to protect is not real. If it were, the museum would have sent men already to collect it. Why then, when he puts a magnifying glass to it, do its depths reveal tiny daggers of flames?

The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example they do not then believe in nothing.... They commence believing in anything.

The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by the truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example, they do not believe in nothing. It is as Chesterton said, they will believe in anything, usually the nearest and biggest thing, the gross power of the state to solve their problems.