Deception Quotes

It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.

~ Tasneem Hameed

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

~ Tom Clancy

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

~ Marcus Aurelius

If I close my eyes, I do not see anything but, if I imagine, I see something. To look beyond what you look and see, use your minds eye and not your eyes

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals. (...) There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution.(...) Among humans, the best deceivers are those who deceive themselves: 'we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better'. A lover who promises eternal fidelity s more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep his promise.(...) In a competition for mates, a well-developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage.

~ John Gray

A momentary smile appeared on Cogo's face before fading away. No matter how many times he saw it, he was still amazed by how Kuni's sincerity shaded into an instinct for political theater. He was, of course, moved by the loyalty of a man who would rather be in jail than betray him, but he also knew to play it for all it was worth to cement even more loyalty.

~ Ken Liu

Authenticity was the key to any deception. Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.

~ Jodi Meadows

i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.

~ Kay M. Rutherford

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

~ Marty Rubin

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

~ Graham Greene

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.

~ Honoré De Balzac

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

~ Gary Hopkins

The green girl necessarily pines for the past, because the present is too uncomfortable to be present in and the future, unimaginable. The need to long, to desire that which she cannot have, that which has eluded her, because she deceives herself that it was this person, this chance, where she would have found happiness.

~ Kate Zambreno

I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel and started to walk away.

~ Philippa Gregory

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

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

~ William Faulkner

She was forthright to the point of rudeness, yet he couldn’t help admiring her for saying what she really thought. It was rather refreshing to be challenged for a change – it had been many years since anyone had dared to do that. His wealth and power generally seemed to strike rather too much awe into those he associated with. It seemed this Tamsin was different.

~ Emily Arden

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended.

~ C. Terry Warner

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)?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must know that we cannot expect fair play.That is, perhaps, most crucial of all. Those of us who practice in this field must face the implications of the fact that we are dealing with sexual abuse. Child sex offenders-people who exploit children’s bodies and betray their trust-are not going to hesitate to lie outright. This is obvious but nonetheless frequently seems to catch people by surprise.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

~ Anna C. Salter

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

~ Brandon Mull

So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.

~ James Clavell

But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight as bravely for slavery as for safety, and count it not shame but highest honor to risk their blood and their lives for the vainglory of a tyrant; yet in a free state no more mischievous expedient could be planned or attempted.

~ Joseph Ratner

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

~ Anthony Liccione

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

~ Camelia C.

He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world.But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom could he find in denying the truth about himself?

~ R.a. Salvatore

He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.

~ Marcha A. Fox

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Thomas Hood

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself, he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.

~ John Irving

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

~ Camelia C.

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

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

~ Lemony Snicket

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

~ Ashim Shanker

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

~ Brent Weeks

He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man--which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

~ Charles Dickens