Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a...

Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

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

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of...

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my...

I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe...

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing...

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

It wasn’t often he met someone who had her emotions so on display. Most of the women he knew were interested in more material things and kept their emotions well hidden beneath a mask of...

Hope distracts you from pain – it’s pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

I don’t see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole that would soon be inhabited by termites and worms.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

How can I grieve what is still in motion?” I ask her. “Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not kidding,” I say. “It´s Normandy out there.

They were Catholic, my lovers,All in an access of crossing themselves,Particularly their fingersBehind their suspendered backs–And that was the women.

Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

A ”just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

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...

Don’t be stuck in a life that’s not yours just because of a bad habit

I promise.

People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers’ bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets...

I´m just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding me back. I just can´t seem to get back into the intelligent-slut-for-hire outfits...

Yesterday I got a credit card application from a major bank with a variable rate of 12.99% to 20.99%. Such a deal. And what if I fall on hard times and lose my job? So,...

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,...

Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.

This was a new skill she’d acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment… But the best camouflage of all – in my opinion – is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

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

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

A snake bites your ankle.Recoiling, you scream.Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream……where a man bites your ankle.Expecting no guile, ‘Again,’ softly falls from your lips with a smile.Yet, the man and the snake...

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,’...

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.