Deception Quotes

It is better to admit your failure than to live in self deception

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

The heart will find solace after a lost love, but once the soul is betrayed and broken it will always bleed and the wounds will never really heal, , , ,

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears, , , ,

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it's taste and the nutrients it contains

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.

Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.

Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.

Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!-Petra Godfellow

I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

Some women are good-looking … until they change their hairstyle.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story.

Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth.

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.

Lie long enough and eventually you'll believe yourself.

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.

All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.

A delusion a mockery and a snare.

Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

"Will you walk into my parlour?" Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."

All warfare is based on deception.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.