Quotes About Deception

The outward show of it was there to perfection, — so that the Fawn girls really believed that their brother had written an affectionate lover's letter. Inwardly, Lizzie swore to herself, as she read the cold words with indignation, that the man should not escape her

And yet these leaders of the fashion know, Ã¢â'¬â€ at any rate they believe, Ã¢â'¬â€ that he is what he is because he has been a swindler greater than other swindlers.

Men reconcile themselves to swindling. Though they themselves mean to be honest, dishonesty of itself is no longer odious to them.

To the old such plots and plans, such matured schemes for obtaining the goods of this world without the trouble of earning them, such long-headed attempts to convert 'tuum' into 'meum,' are the ways of life to which they are accustomed. 'Tis thus that many live, and it therefore behoves all those who are well to do in the world to be on their guard agains those who are not.

But when he returned home he was as far as ever from any resolve to tell her how he was situated. I may say that his walk had done him no good, and that he had not made up his mind to anything. He had been building those pernicious castles in the air during more than half the time; not castles in the building of which he could make himself happy, as he had done in the old days, but black castles, with cruel dungeons, into which hardly a ray of light could find its way.

She liked lies, thinking them to be more beautiful than truth. To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in woman and an added grace in man.

You can run down a demi-god only by making him out to be a demi-devil.  These

She thought that she rather liked Lady Eustace. But then Lady Fawn hated Lady Linlithgow as only two old women can hate each other; — and she had not heard the story of the diamond necklace

AcÅ£iunea teatrului, ca ÅŸi a ciumei, este binef?c?toare, c?ci impingându-i pe oameni s? se vad? aÅŸa cum sunt, le smulge masca, le descoper? minciuna, moleÅŸeala, nimicnicia, ipocrizia

Another important lesson from the time was that mass self-deception is simply a sedative prescribed by leaders who cannot face reality themselves. And as the Spanish Civil War proved, the first casualty of war is not truth, but its source: the conscience and integrity of the individual.

He did not want headlines round the world proclaiming that a ship called 'Germany' had been sunk.

She has something else - a great deal else, said Alice Perrers' soft laughing voice from the corner, and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won't be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision - and shall.

Every Reason to Lie

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.

Exactly," he said, turning again and writing on the board. "Self-betrayal is how we enter the box." "Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted. 4. So — when I betray myself, I enter the box.

But that wasn't true. The only thing that happened between the time that Bud felt irritated and angry and the time that he didn't was something that Bud did — his own self-betrayal — not something that Nancy did. So Bud's feelings were lying to him!

Homero, más que ningún otro, nos ha enseñado a todos el arte de forjar mentiras de manera adecuada

Under every rock lurks a politician.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he must be ignorant and a rogue.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.

Halk y???nlar? aldat?ld?klar? zaman kendilerini kötü ÅŸeyler yapmaya özendirenlere kar?? kin besler.