Quotes About Deception

En la sociedad siempre triunfa la hipocresía!

glass. And there really weren't any

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

She was an old woman, but she managed to look like a young woman with a ravaging disease.

She kept saying, My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back. But that's the kind of lie people tell sometimes when they got only strangers to rely on. There's shame in that, so people lie.

If appearance is only a trick of the nerves, and apparition is only a lesser trick of the nerves, a less perfect illusion, then this expectation, this sense of a presence unperceived, was not particularly illusory as things in this world go.

it is true that we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations, so there is a seeming continuity which is important because it deceives us.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Any man can turn traitor.

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters

Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.

He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

But della Rovere frowned and said, Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.

He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.