If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the religionists. But these “men of God” are victims of the natural course of...

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or...

It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of succeeding. At times, in my case, multiple lawsuits and an ethics charge seemed...

Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever.

Stop making flamboyant promises. Earn the people’s trust first, then do more than they expect

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

…a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes–for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life.

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in...

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you!

When people communicate deceit, it’s called politics. When people communicate honesty, it’s called art.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

She wasn’t always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took over.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don’t know the Albert that don’t dance, can’t hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

In the abundance of men’s incredible promises, there’s an equal abundance of deceit

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue…is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Never pretend to be something you are not, especially to be accepted. Be loved for who you are, it will be tough at times but worth it.

Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen to them. Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It...

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.

You have to deny each lie and every truth with the same vinegar. Let those websites and blowhards who bitch about cover-ups confuse the public for you.

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer’s fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world’s eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and...

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.

Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I’m lying about something. Now we’re even.Lake

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

Walk straight aheadListen to no oneTrust not in the walls or doorwaysFor they will misleadAnd close behind youAs you walk through The forest, not knowingWhere you’ve come fromOr where you’re going …If anywhere at all.

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there’s no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

Death is deceitful, pretending that peace is on the horizon. The truth is that chaos is left in its wake, claiming the souls of those stranded in life. Death is the enemy of love in...

I want you.Eena thought the expression on his face—the look in his weary blue eyes—appeared strangely sincere. But there was one thing she had learned from all this: never trust a master of deceit.

DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once...

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Sometimes you feel as though you’ve slandered yourself, but the joke’s on them.

It’s a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don’t trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They’ll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never...

pious”.

Politics bores you?” Bronsen said.Julien smiled. “It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven’t tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars,...

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who...