Deception Quotes

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

~ C.j. Redwine

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.

~ C.j. Redwine

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

~ Michael Frayn

Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.

~ C.j. Redwine

This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when they have broken faith.

~ Michael Ennis

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

~ J. Aleksandr Wootton

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.

~ C.j. Redwine

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

~ Embee

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Tadeusz Borowski

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.

~ Orson Scott Card

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

~ Ernest Hemingway

87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise. Yet we have scriptural authority for it: Deceiving and being deceived.—2 TIM. iii. 13.]

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

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

~ Nikki Rosen

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

~ Amit Abraham

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

~ Pascal Mercier

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

~ Walter Benjamin

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

~ Shinichi Suzuki

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

~ Vernor Vinge

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.



~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.

~ R.d. Ronald

Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

~ Darrell Drake

All warfare is based on deception.

~ Unknown

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

~ Elizabeth I

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

~ Michael Musto

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

~ Oscar Wilde

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

~ Martin L. Gross

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

~ Luc De Clapiers

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

~ Sophocles

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci