Quotes About Deception

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Fifth column.

It is lonely, being an evil alien in disguise.

The most palpable facts, are exactly the contrary to what we should expect.

The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way.

Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

This for my own part i have more than once been deceived by the person I loved the most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth,but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on.

She seemed to listen to life as though life were the most cunning and charming of confidence men: knowing perfectly well that she was being conned, she, nevertheless, again and again, gave the man the money for the Brooklyn Bridge. She never gained possession of the bridge, of course, but she certainly learned how to laugh. And the tiny lines in her face had been produced as much by laughter as by loss.

I bet you think we're in a g***am park. You don't know we're in one of the world's great jungles. You don't know that behind all them damn dainty trees and sh*t, people are screwing and fixing and dying. Dying, baby, right now while we move through this darkness in this man's taxicab. And you don't know it, even when you're told; you don't know it, even when you see it.

An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.

Appearances proved nothing and everything.

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Il y a deux Histoires : l'Histoire officielle, menteuse qu'on enseigne, l'Histoire ad usum delphini puis l'Histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements, une histoire honteuse

At all hours the financier is trampling on the living, the attorney on the dead, the pleader on the conscience. Forced to be speaking without a rest, they all substitute words for ideas, phrases for feelings, and their soul becomes a larynx.

All the affected airs of sensibility which a woman puts on invariably deceive a lover; and on occasions when a husband shrugs his shoulders, a lover is in ecstasies.

Alas! if your wife has not yet kissed the apple of the Serpent, the Serpent stands before her.