Deception Quotes
I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESIt is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~
Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!
Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).
The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.
All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.
Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.
History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.
Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.
No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.
The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.
Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.
The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.
This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.
when a man", continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. ..""The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?
Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.
And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.
A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.
Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.
The reality and the deception are the ‘perceptions’ as of colors- say of black and white in this multicolored world.
Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived.
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.
Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life, ’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.
Never trust a person whose smile doesn't reach their eyes, chances are they do similar thing when they "cry" - Just be sure you have that OSCAR ready next time they do this