Quotes About Deception

The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin,

Love can make a fool of any man.

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837)

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Politicians will respect, rather than manipulate, reality only if the public cares about the truth and punishes politicians when it catches them in deliberate deception.

Memory is a wily keeper of the past, usually dependable, but at times, deceptive. Childhood memories are especially slippery. Sweet and so full of joy, they can often be a misrendering of the truth. For a child, that sweetness, out of context and intensely subjective, remains forever real. I know that I will always be haunted by the larger, vaguely remembered reality of the circumstances surrounding my childhood.

With each post or tweet, we choose what to keep private and what to make public, what face to show the world and what to keep buried. It is a kind of deception, and we have become reality stars, every one of us.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity.

There is no mask that temptation cannot wear.

Le mensonge n'a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l'unique privilège des misérables.