Quotes About Deception

Marie-Antoinette'e hiçbir ÅŸey ikiyüzlülük ve rol yapma kadar yabanc? deÄŸildi; kocas?n? sinsice aldatmak ruhen onun tavr?na uymaz, ayr?ca o pek s?k rastlanan bulan?k kar???m, hem koca hem â??kla iliÅŸkiyi bir arada yürütme çirkinliÄŸi onun karakteri için söz konusu deÄŸildir.

I wanted to go back over what I had so fleetingly experienced step by step, relishing it in retrospect by virtue of that magical self-deception we call memory.

Bu bir... evet, bir dakika... bu bir... birinin bir katile kar?? uyarmak için diÄŸerinin arkas?ndan koÅŸmas? ve diÄŸerinin de bizzat onu katil sanmas?, bu yüzden de kendi mahvoluÅŸuna doÄŸru koÅŸmaya devam etmesi gibi bir ÅŸet...

María Antonieta charla exclusivamente con la boca, y no con la cabeza.

No hay nada que a los hombres les cueste más perdonar que el desengaño en medio de un sincero entusiasmo y el verse alevosamente defraudados por un hombre del que lo han esperado todo.

They called on the parents of the girl and filled them with alarm by suggesting that the empress would withdraw the yearly pension of two hundred ducats if their daughter's sight were restored, and, further, that the young pianist would lose half her attraction on the concert platform if she possessed normal vision. The possibility of having to forgo the yearly income worked like a charm upon Father and Mother Paradies.

I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Coward! Liar! Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the ironmongery?

going to the kingdom of cocaine, it was going to Hollywood...

Bob, he's been crazy for weeks. A big job went wrong and he had to lie low and he got in with a man who put him on to some drug or other—Mary Warner, may be." She lowered her voice over the mobsman's name for the drug marihuana.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

She'd explained to Annabelle that she'd discovered her fiancé was cheating on her a few days before the wedding. When Annabelle had asked her why she hadn't simply canceled the ceremony, she'd shrugged and said, "My dress had a ten-foot train.

People will do whatever they can to keep their illusions intact," he said. "Then they justify it with a philosophy.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.