Quotes About Deception

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

What you're seeing, certainly on Instagram, is not real, not a reflection of real life, not an interaction.

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

I've been living a lie all my life.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

People ask without wanting to know.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it