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Quotes About Deception

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.
~ Julia Roberts
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
~ Sylvia Plath, Ariel
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
~ Daniel Craig
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.
~ Abbi Glines
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
~ Ada Leverson
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
~ Rajneesh
And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd
~ William Shakespeare
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
~ Aravind Adiga
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
~ Charlotte Bunch
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.
~ Frederick Lenz
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?
~ Homaro Cantu
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
You see, you don't want me to love you. You want the version you've made up. The knight, even though I'm the dragon and I always will be.
~ Jeaniene Frost
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
~ Jessamyn West
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The world loves to be deceived.
~ Sebastian Franck
I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.
~ Steve Zahn
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
~ William Butler Yeats
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.
~ William Shakespeare
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.
~ Nicki Minaj
I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing