Quotes About Deception

Love never betrays. People do.

Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate.

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

I've poured my heart out on this page. Now burn it and destroy the evidence that anyone ever cared this much for you.

She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster.

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

fracasso é um trapaceiro com um aguçado senso de ironia e astúcia.

there is no hope for the person who is dishonest by choice. Sooner or later, his deeds will catch up with him, and he will pay by loss of reputation, and perhaps even loss of liberty.

It is a well known fact that one comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false. If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.*

Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth.

companies trying to misrepresent the product they sell by playing with our cognitive biases, our unconscious associations, and that's sneaky. The latter is done by, say, showing a poetic picture of a sunset with a cowboy smoking and forcing an association between great romantic moments and some given product that, logically, has no possible connection to it. You seek a romantic moment and what you get is cancer.

A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.

An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

Anything one needs to market heavily is necessarily either an inferior product or an evil one. And it is highly unethical to portray something in a more favorable light than it actually is.

We expect places and products to be less attractive than in marketing brochures, but we never forgive humans for being worse than their first impressions

Hatred is much harder to fake than love. You hear of fake love; never of fake hate.

Anyone looking for confirmation will find enough of it to deceive himself—and no doubt his peers.*