Quotes About Deception

Or, il me semble qu'à la place des murs je ne voie partout que des décors. Et la destruction des décors est une chose tout à fait juste.

Mas sabia que de nada serve uma pessoa abandonar-se às miragens das ilusões.

Osje?aj ljubavi svima nam daje lažnu iluziju poznavanja.

Se há coisa que sempre me enojou profundamente no homem é realmente ver como a sua crueldade, a sua baixeza e a sua estupidez arranjam maneira de se disfarçar sob a máscara do lirismo.

Mistaking the physical appearance of the beloved for someone else's. How often that's happened to him! Always with the same astonishment: does that mean that the difference between her and other women is so minute? How is it possible that he cannot distinguish the form of the being he loves most, the being he considers to be beyond compare?

The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal

Karel had put a mask of Nora on Eva and put a child's mask on himself, and Marketa had removed the head from his body. He was a man's body without a head. Karel disappeared and a miracle occurred: Marketa was free and joyous!

Desde entonces sabía que la belleza es un mundo traicionado.

Desde entonces sabía que la belleza es un mundo traicionado. Sólo podemos encontrarla cuando sus perseguidores la han dejado olvidada por error en algún sitio.

Sabina sentía a su alrededor el vacío. Pero ¿qué sucedería si ese vacío fuese precisamente el objetivo de todas sus traiciones?

Avoir un public, penser à un public, c'est vivre dans le mensonge.

Na pierwszym planie by?o zrozumia?e k?amstwo, a w tle niezrozumia?a prawda.

It has something malicious about it (things suddenly turning out different from what they pretended to be), but to some extent also a beneficent relief (things are less weighty than they appeared to be, letting us live more freely, no longer oppressing us with their austere seriousness).

Strang had already perfected his talent for telling other people just what they wanted to hear, so a dose of skepticism is in order for any belief he professed—a double dose for the ones he professed passionately.

confidence artist to the very end.

Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine in a free society, and have said that in such a society, there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Love doesn't stop people from betraying each other

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.