Quotes About Deception

You make it sound as if I hit her. I did nothing to Edie!' 'Oh? You did nothing? The woman I found in your wake, stripped of all self-repsect, convinced that she was a failure as a mother and a lover: that wasn't your work? Because I think it was!

It was as if the world was presenting her with everything she wanted ... in all the wrong ways.

My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how I felt about Lily if you could have seen my eyes. Never.

Didn't it say it all that Griffin couldn't make it to his own bloody front door without a cane? For all his was mahogany topped with a dull ruby, and hid in its innards a vicious blade, in the end it was an old man's stick.

To sum it up, your father is morally corrupt and worthless. ..If you'd like an elaborated version: He is a rotter who wishes to be king, I also think he's annoyed by the fact that he's turned out to be a member of the human race and thereby vulnerable to death. Lady Joan Wilde

I can't imagine what you write about," North said. "Certainly not about my personal life. I attempted a diary once, and had to fill it with lies in order to keep myself interested

What's the good of being Juliet when Romeo shows no sign of killing himself for love, but instead prances off with Rosalind.

Life has lots of genuine-sounding simulated answers waiting to be snatched up by gullible takers.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

La mentira no es siempre necesaria, pero es algo a lo que te acostumbras y no puedes parar

Nasceu com boceta? Vai ser enganada. Traída, humilhada.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

We're not the ones making all the false promises, then getting caught in an obvious lie or with our fingers in the till. Maybe that's why they call them "the fortunes of war." They can be quoted on the stock exchange.

Every falsity is something we can convince ourselves of, and when we have done so it seems to us to be the truth:

Lies often spread faster than the Truths. Thus, don't be quick to believe everything that you hear. Unless and until it is proven beyond reasonable doubt. -Emeasoba George

Self-delusion is one's failure to recognize a reality. Now, permit me to tell you this. Anyone who thinks or says that true Love does not exist is just delusive. Yes! because, true Love exists and it will ever exist. Note: A Cheat always thinks and says that everyone cheats and a Liar often thinks and says that everyone lies (mark you). -Emeasoba George

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

Word — That invisible dagger.

Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.