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Quotes About Deception

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
~ Daniel Defoe
Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.
~ David Allan Coe
Hearts don't realize they've been lied to. They still love anyway.
~ Abbi Glines
If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
~ Paul-Jean Toulet
Love is a promise delivered already broken.
~ Steve Martin
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.
~ Tibullus
There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.
~ Anton Chekhov
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
~ Philip Neri
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
~ Ovid
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
~ Djuna Barnes
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~ Edmondo De Amicis
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
~ John Updike
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
~ Theodor Adorno
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
~ William Shakespeare
Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.
~ Willie Nelson
What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.
~ Peter Jackson
I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.
~ Antonio Esfandiari
There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
~ Diogenes
The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.
~ Eric Woolfson