Quotes About Deception

Everybody thinks about film, everybody knows films are made somewhere out there, and it's interesting," he said. "But very little is known about what goes on because all of us lie.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it is very hard to unravel.

In the old tales, when people undertake quests, they find themselves fighting dragons or serpents or giant dogs. Or maybe a dark warrior of some kind, folk who are enemies from the start. But it's far more frightening when someone seems friendly and good, and turns out to be different altogether. The odd and uncanny are not terrifying in themselves. The most disturbing thing is the ordinary turned strange. Things familiar and safe becoming not right.

Mistress Blackthorn? Fool. Who else would it be?

He has no intention of being misled by her. On the contrary, he laughs to himself that he's deceiving her.

Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinformation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgment.

The whole nation slid into doublespeak. Works became divorced from reality, responsibility, and people's real thoughts. Lies were told with ease because words had lost their meanings-and had ceased to be taken seriously by others.

In the absence of clear knowledge, rumours have abounded and lies have been invented and believed.

Those touched-up images were not what her mirrors had been telling her for some time.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

We grow up and figure out the truth, we realize how hard it is to maintain and take care of life, even the ones that deceive you, especially the ones you cherish

The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

It's a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

Lo que llamamos amor es en realidad jugar a arrancarnos mutuamente las máscaras; y, con tal fin, es imprescindible esforzarse en llevar tal máscara, por el bien de la persona amada. Se sigue de ahí que si no hay máscara, tampoco existe el placer de arrancarla

InocenÅ£a ei feminin? îl preschimbase într-un duÅŸman.

I had a terribly bad aftertaste. Just making my face look as if it were new, with my memories and my habits unchanged, was quite like dipping up water with a bottomless dipper. Since I had put a mask over my face, I needed one that would fit my heart. If possible, I wanted to be so perfect in my inventions and my acting as to be undetectable even by a lie detector.

Singur?tatea era o sete nesatisf?cut? de iluzii.

almost everybody I met gave me, ungrudging, only affability. As long as things did not go any further, everyone put up a fine show. ... Shut off by a wall of affability, I was always completely alone.

Farmecele ei erau ca o plant? carnivor?, înzestrat? în mod special cu dulcele miros al mierii. Intai va sem?na seminÅ£ele scandalului îndemnandu-l la un act p?timaÅŸ, iar apoi lanÅ£urile ÅŸantajului îl vor Å£ine legat de maini ÅŸi de picioare.

had there not been concealed in my mask from the beginning a scheme of revenge?

The fact has been made clear that your face—the mobile, harmonious type—was a mask too. In short, we are two spots of the same ink. It was not solely my responsibility.

The pleasure of deceiving would fade to a shadow before the anxiety of being deceived.

If the convention of the face were empty, perhaps a disguise too was just as empty.