I had a dream about you. You smiled at me, and I blushed like a red rose. Then you started sniffing my cheeks and I realized you were a bee and I’d been deceived.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that...

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

Your deceit smells like a fake mustache. Nobody stole my facial hair. I shaved this morning and donated half of it to the Humane Society. The other half I kept for sentimental petting reasons.

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to...

Now, look what you’ve done!” she accused tearfully and bolted from the room.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

You know how mainstream news is interspersed with product ads? Well, why aren’t all the shows made entirely out of the stuff? I find commercials more believable, and I’d be more inclined to watch.

Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

My reality is it’s nighttime. The truth is I’m just blindfolded. How many people live like me, in self-deluded darkness?

We’re LIVING.

Someday you will have the same feeling of love and loss at the sametime..Ur hands will be shaking, your mind wondering, your tongue unmoving, and I won’t even look at you!!

Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

My deceit is shaped like a STOP sign. It’s also bright red. If you don’t observe it, it can be quite dangerous.

yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment...

I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they...

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago.

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it ‘sucka-free’, loved one!

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

a rumor is only true, if you get offended.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a...

good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to...

Now, I don’t believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand...

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those...

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!