Quotes About Deception

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

There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery

this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.

Para todo el mundo es más difícil vivir en la verdad que en la mentira.

Pueden ustedes reírse de mí, cuando les dé la espalda.

Yo no quería creer que hubiera traicionado a su compañero de toda la vida. Bueno, la política es eso, abrirse camino entre cadáveres.

The simple fact is that he didn't write what he saw but what he felt and believed, what those all around him felt and believed. That's how that whole tangled web of false stories and humbug got woven, becoming so intricate that there is now no way to disentangle it.

Lily la chilenita, la camarada Arlette, madame Robert Arnoux, Mrs. Richardson, Kuriko y madame Ricardo Somocurcio, se llamaba, en realidad, Otilia. Otilita.

patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Als het tenminste waar is wat je me vertelt. Want weet je, hoe vervelend ik het ook vind, je hebt me al zoveel verhaaltjes op de mouw gespeld dat het me moeilijk valt er ook maar iets van te geloven.

La literatura es puro artificio, pero la gran literatura consigue disimularlo y la mediocre lo delata.

De todos modos, escribir lo que no se vivía para hacerse la idea de vivirlo, llevaba ya implícito un castigo: la sensación de fracaso y frustración con que terminaban siempre los juegos mentirosos de sus diarios. (y también los hechos vividos, por lo demás) Pero, ahora, esos juegos irresponsables habían puesto en manos del enemigo un arma formidable para envilecer su nombre y su memoria

Una vez más se dijo que su vida había sido una contradicción permanente, una sucesión de confusiones y enredos truculentos, donde la verdad de sus intenciones y comportamientos quedaba siempre, por obra del azar o de su propia torpeza, oscurecida, distorsionada, trastocada en mentira

El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas

Yo no quería creer que hubiera traicionado a su compañero de toda la vida. Bueno, la política es eso, abrirse camino entre cadáveres. —El

embaucador italiano Tommaso Debenedetti, que durante años estuvo publicando en diarios de su país «entrevistas» con escritores, políticos, religiosos (incluido el Papa), que

In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered—Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out.

I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser.

We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rockstar, trust the good girl. That's never their only story.

It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.

They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph.

It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it." She