Quotes About Deception

It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.

It is very extraordinary to see the perfect flush of health on her cheeks, to see the lustre of her coiled black hair, the poise of the head upon the neck, the grace of the white hands - and to think that it all means nothing - that it is a picture without a meaning. Yes, it is queer.

Ford Madox Ford

The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate.

Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.

Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies.

That's almost like telling lies," she said. "And lies—well, you see, they are not only wicked—they're vulgar.

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

Set a thief to catch a thief

What does guile mean?" "Deceit, duplicity, dishonesty

His eyes narrowed with scorn. "I know a lot of things about you I didn't know before, Enid. I know, for instance, that you're not as pure as you'd like me to believe.

People always tell you that they want you to be honest with them. But they're lying. Nobody wants that. Honesty sucks. That's why the word honesty is always preceded by other words, like brutal and painful.

If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper.

How ashamed most of us would be, if we were reminded of some past behavior, some attitude that we maintained while under the delusion that we were in love—and were loved in return.

A beautiful face can mask great evil...

Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.

But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

A lie often told enough will eventually be accepted as truth. - Acsah

Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?

A man's heart can die before a spear ever pierced him. - Bathsheba