Quotes About Deception

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.