Quotes About Deception

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

On a cloth untrueWith a twisted cueAnd elliptical billiard balls.

A lie get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

Pero claro está que las mentiras más espectaculares en absoluto necesitan ser perfectas. No dependen tanto de la habilidad del embustero como de las expectativas y los deseos del oyente.

More than anything, the pictures had altered my vision of George. The graceful young man with long dark hair and beautiful manners had spawned a double, and it was this second man, the one I didn't know, who fascinated me.

If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

He interrupted me more frequently and summarized my complaints in an increasingly optimistic light. I couldn't see or feel these changes myself, but Dr. Fish was confident, and I half believed him. The truth is that I participated in the deception. I was studying for my oral exams then, and I was desperate for the treatments to work.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

In love, anger is always false.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

... love always betrays its intentions.

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.