Quotes About Deception

Prestige is a distorting force that makes you want to like something that you really do not.

Deformisano glediste komunisticke propagande je lako ispraviti ali je tesko vratiti pogresnog vidovnjaka na umjesnu ingelektualnu koncepciju. prvi utisak ostaje i postaje predrasuda.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

For he cannot be free from infelicity who worships Felicity as a goddess, and forsakes God, the giver of felicity; just as he cannot be free from hunger who licks a painted loaf of bread, and does not buy it of the man who has a real one.

But if war itself is Mars, as speech is Mercury, I wish it were as true that there were no war to be falsely called a god, as it is true that it is not a god.

Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that we beguiled those who little thought what we were doing, and much disliked it.

Behold with what companions I walked the streets of Babylon, and wallowed in the mire thereof, as if in a bed of spices and precious ointments. And that I might cleave the faster to its very centre, the invisible enemy trod me down, and seduced me, for that I was easy to be seduced.

I lighted upon that bold woman, simple and knoweth nothing, shadowed out in Solomon, sitting at the door, and saying, Eat ye bread of secrecies willingly, and drink ye stolen waters which are sweet: she seduced me, because she found my soul dwelling abroad in the eye of my flesh, and ruminating on such food as through it I had devoured.

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Her palace shimered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

O amor, admito-o com um suspiro, é muito mais forte que a literatura, porém o amor na literatura é bem mais belo do que na própria vida. Ao menos de vez em quando permite iludirmo-nos.

in the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles.

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

No me reconociste, ni entonces ni en ningún otro momento, nunca me has reconocido. ¿Cómo te puedo describir, querido, la decepción de aquel instante? Por primera vez fui consciente de estar predestinada a que no me reconocieras durante toda mi vida

Kad?nlar genel olarak, içlerindeki kendini verme arzusu ne kadar yak?c? olursa olsun, bu haz?r oluÅŸ durumunu inkar etmek, ürkmüÅŸ gibi yapmak veya yalanlar, yeminler ve vaatler arac?l???yla önce yat??t?r?lmas? gereken bir öfkeyi oynamak al??kanl???ndad?rlar.

Persistently trying to hoodwink one another, the Emperor, the kings, the princes, and the revolutionaries created an atmosphere of general distrust (like that which poisons the world today); and, in the end, though they had not directly purposed anything of the kind, they involved twenty-five million men in the cataract or a war which lasted for twenty-five years.

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

Neyin gerçek, neyin yanl?? olduÄŸunu öyle uzaktan, insanlar?n sana anlatt?klar?na bakarak nas?l bilebilirsin ki?

The more naïve a people are, the easier it is to get around them.