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Quotes About Deception

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
~ Virginia Woolf
Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
~ The liar has a bad memory.
They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don't mean, and do that which you planned against?
~ Kyle Schmalenberg
A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The truth is no more clearly revealed than when one is aware of the blatant lie.
~ Rythmic Karma
The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Buried treasure isn't worth much.
~ S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
Were a million people to believe in bullshit, it yet is just bull crap.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?
~ Saurabh Sharma
All your lies became truth of my life!
~ Balkrishn Sanmotra
Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
~ Idries Shah
One lie will keep out forty truths.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Today's temple of truth will become the prison of tomorrow.
~ William Meader
The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup
~ Macklemore
Sanity is a cozy lie.
~ Susan Sontag
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
~ William Congreve
Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.
~ Donna Barr
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
~ Angela Thirkell
There's a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.
~ dream hampton
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.
~ Catharine Beecher