Quotes About Deception

Las fotografías engañan al tiempo, suspendiéndolo en un trozo de cartón donde el alma queda bocabajo, decía

No hay peor pobreza que la de la gente venida a menos, porque se debe aparentar lo que no se tiene.

Lloró creyendo que lloraba por el niño muerto y por Alma, pero lo hacía por sí mismo, por su vida mesurada y convencional, por el peso de las responsabilidades que nunca podría sacudirse de encima, por la soledad que lo agobiaba desde que nació, por el amor que añoraba y nunca tendría, por los naipes engañosos que le habían tocado y por todas las malditas tretas de su destino.

Ella lo llamó con una sonrisa coqueta, último requisito para concluir que esa joven podía robarle hasta los pensamientos.

Casi todo el mundo miente, unos por vanidad, para presentarse bajo una luz favorable, otros por temor y la mayoría simplemente por hábito.

He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified. Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior. "It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally.

His wife, Leanne, who came to his waist, looked like an undernourished adolescent with the face of a fly, but her fragility was deceptive: she had given birth to six male children and was expecting the seventh. She knew it would be male because God was determined to test her patience.

Pst! ¡Padre Restrepo! Si el cuento del infierno fuera pura mentira, nos chingamos todos...

El problema con la ficción es que debe ser creíble, en cambio la realidad rara vez lo es.

Cómo surgieron de pronto tantos delatores, colaboradores, torturadores y asesinos? Tal vez estuvieron siempre allí y no supimos verlos.

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la peor pobreza es la de cuello y corbata, porque hay que disimularla

I had been assured that, as long as I was still nursing Juan Martín, I'd be safeguarded against another pregnancy, but it turned out to be another of the lies peddled to women at that time.

Mi vida está hecha de apariencias, no verdades.

I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that is their deal: to lie ahead of time. There is zero news value in that.

If someone sees me with what looks like a beer, it's always zero per cent.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.

At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the group, taking from purses or bags or using a razor to cut pockets and take wallets.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.