Quotes About Deception

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life

I tell you neither the waters of the Danube nor the Nile can wash this palace clean.

Fate works most for woe With Folly's fairest show. Man's little pleasure is the spring of sorrow.

Money! Nothing worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting. Money—you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime—money!

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is too believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

Therefore, the person who is unable to write letters and notes never becomes a dangerous seducer.

Existen dos maneras de ser engañados: una es creer lo que no es verdad y la otra es negarse a aceptar lo que sí lo es.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.