Quotes About Deception

For this was not the outcry of love, but one at last, and utterly, and forever, cheated.

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Wall Street wants you to believe they are there to make money for you, but their true purpose is to make money from you.

A man who was not who he appeared to be needed to be ever mindful of who he really was.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.

Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. He paused. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal.

The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world...

The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes.

Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.

He didn't think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he'd been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.

invaded you and blinded you to the light.

My sweetest daughter," he whispered, "in whom I see no fault, know the depths of love. A love that knows no fear. A love that formed you and named you and gave you to me. A blessing beyond my understanding." His fingers trembled. "Eli is the gift I bring you. Hear him. Keep him safe. He knows the way out of this great deception.

Don't wear your mask too long or you might start to forget who's beneath it. -Austin

The wisdom of the world dresses up as helpful protection while binding you to fear

Kurtlar geliyor diye ba??rma o yalanc? çoban gibi,' demekteydim gerçekte. BaÅŸka düÅŸünceler, ürpertici tan?d?k düÅŸünceler Geldiler gerili cambaz ipini geçip: 'Kurtlar geliyor diye ba??rma. Yoksa anlayamam, duymam Ä°ÅŸler gerçekten kötü gittiÄŸinde.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...