Deception Quotes
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.