Quotes About Deception

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

They say the truth hurts, but the only thing the truth hurts, are illusions.

Munchausen by proxy may be the single most complex—and lethal—form of maltreatment known today. It is formally defined as the falsification or induction of physical and/or emotional illness by a caretaker of a dependent person. In most cases, the perpetrator is a mother and the victim is her own child.

Dad," I say, leaning across the table, "did you know that Mom made things up about me?

God, please," I scream, "help, Mom, he is going to kill me!" And she is standing just where she was three minutes ago. Three minutes ago my life was different. Three minutes ago I could have made it out of here intact, but now Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And my mother, arms folded, body now relaxed and loose, is wearing the curly smile of a Cheshire cat, staring right at me, holding my eyes as I go down, crack, into the corner.

It's amazing how something can be blue and yet absolutely colorless.

The surface didn't always tell the full story. A carefully constructed façade could hide a myriad of secrets.

No matter how badly you want to please someone, you can only put up a false front for so long.

She remembers that everything she remembers is not necessarily true.

You said I was all you'd ever need Love is blind and little did I know That you were just another dead-end road Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams

How do you know I'm pregnant?" "It's amazing." He cracked his knuckles. "Children always take their own parents for idiots. They come in reeling drunk at 1 am, smelling of cherry brandy and cigarettes, and think the old man's a detective for finding out they weren't studying with a friend.

Client reports. Jack was a private detective." "I don't understand." "I'm— uh— a ghostwriter.

Just because a frog says he's a prince doesn't mean you should kiss him. For all you know he's one of the arrogant, worthless princes who might better serve society as a pair of buttered legs on someone's plate.

Nature is only another chimera.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

On peut être criminel sans sans avoir jamais manié une arme ou une pince-monseigneur.

Cómo podía yo sospechar que aquello que parecía tan mentira era verdadero...

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

Quizá sea el diablo quien dice estas cosas, y quizá tú las crees porque te las dice un rey.

One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard , as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth.

Ahora es más difícil hablar de esto, está mezclado con otras historias que uno agrega a base de olvidos menores, de falsedades mínimas que tejen y tejen por detrás de los recuerdos...

Oh, las máscaras. Uno tiende siempre a pensar en el rostro que esconden, pero en realidad lo que cuenta es la máscara, que sea ésa y no otra. Dime qué máscara usas y te diré qué cara tienes.

Porque solamente las ilusiones eran capaces de mover a sus fieles, las ilusiones no las verdades.