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Quotes About Deception

Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
~ Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'
~ John C. Reilly
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.
~ Alice Cooper
love is the biggest con of all
~ Ally Carter
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
~ Albert Camus
False love is only blinder.
~ George Farquhar
Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
~ Jack Vance
Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you
~ Amy Winehouse
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
~ Billy Joel
Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?
~ Chris Matthews
You can easily tell if a person is lying and cheating on you if they say, I love you. I would never lie to you or cheat on you.
~ Dane Cook
Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
~ Henry Rollins
We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.
~ Isabel Colegate
Falling in love with love Is falling for make-believe.
~ Lorenz Hart
Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.
~ Lorrie Moore
Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.
~ Norm MacDonald
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
~ Peter De Vries
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
~ Robert Browning
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.
~ Greg Behrendt
She can't help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
~ Holly Black
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
~ Honore de Balzac