Quotes About Deception

hope is the denial of reality

The Nightlord wasn't attempting to illicit information from Palin.

The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.

The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one.

It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most.

Que no la conocerá nunca, que no tiene los medios para conocer tanta perversidad. Ni de dar tantos y tantos rodeos para atraparla, nunca lo conseguirá.

Nunca escrevi, e pensei que escrevia, nunca amei, e pensei que amava, nunca fiz nada a não ser esperar diante da porta fechada.

Her eyes are closed, but she is very far from being asleep. Even the shape of her face is altered, different. Her features are shrunken, aged. She has suddenly become what she, as she is, would be if she were ugly.

Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.

También conseguimos engañar a nuestra memoria. A fuerza de repetirnos lo que hubiéramos debido hacer, termina por parecernos imposible no haberlo hecho.

El amor (perdóname) es un sentimiento que no he vuelto a experimentar desde entonces; se necesitan demasiadas virtudes para ser capaz de amar; me extraña que en mi infancia haya podido creer en un pasión tan vana, casi siempre engañosa y que no es necesaria ni siquiera para la voluptuosidad.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

He has left the world of facts to enter that of illusions, and sometimes I think that an illusion is perhaps the shape that the innermost secret realities take in the mind's eye of common folk.

La menzogna non protegge nessuno

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne's part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics.

It's upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it's nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice.

I can cope with anything except being lied to. "Protected from the truth" is the worst thing you could do to me. Even if you know you're going to hurt me, I'd prefer the facts.' 'Okay. But –

But to me, butterflies were slightly sneaky; all they were, were moths in embroidered jackets. And, yes, moths were creepy and their flapping wings made a nasty, papery sound – but at least they were honest; they were brown, they were dull, they were stupid (flying into flames at the drop of a hat). All in all, they hadn't much going for them but they didn't pretend to be anything other than what they were.

and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be

It makes you wonder. How much you can know about a thing, a person. If you can know anything at all. Maybe no one's who we think they are. No one. Makes you doubt yourself, wonder if you even know yourself or if you've been lyin, too, along with everybody else.

Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real, and the real seems unreal.