Quotes About Deception

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave very differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have so little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.

How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have such little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

Anyone can put on a fine coat of varnish outside.

Anyone can put on a charming exterior when they want to.

I've been drifting around at sea, have spent days searching for an effective antidote-1 to that terrible word easy. How can I make it clear to him that, while it may seem easy and wonderful, it will drag him down to the depths, to a place where he'll no longer find friends, support or beauty, so far down that he may never rise to the surface again?

Pretending that things are nicely boxed up and put away robs us of great riches.

So often lately he'd come to realize that things were not as they seemed. There were hidden facets to everything. You'd think you had what you wanted in your grasp and, when you looked closely, it wasn't what it had seemed to be from a distance.

seed of a syphilitic she-camel

fashion. I'm sure he mistook you for one of those…

There's a precise moment when we reject contradiction. This moment of choice is the lie we will live by. What is dearest to us is often dearer to us than truth.

It isn't always the value of what is taken that makes us hate. Sometimes it's just the fact that we've been robbed.

The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it," she replied.

Trouble is, he wasn't clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.

Once I used to imagine that those in power were different, but most of them aren't," she went on. "No one likes to admit that their own people can be as greedy and cruel as any foreigners. We perform all kinds of contortions of the mind to make a reason why it isn't really the way it looks, but we only fool the people who want to be fooled.

The truth deals only one wound, but suspicions a thousand.

We perform all kinds of contortions of the mind to make a reason why it isn't really the way it looks, but we only fool the people who want to be fooled." "Maybe I knew, and forgot," he said, thinking back to his struggle to learn about himself, to piece together the evidence of what kind of a man he was, the good and the bad.

Siempre he dicho que no se puede saber qué maldades se ocultan tras el rostro cordial con que se presenta la mayoría de la gente. Algunos con aspecto de santos son verdaderos diablos.

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty

She would not want anyone she cared for to love a false reflection of her. After all, could there be a greater loneliness than that?