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.

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

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.

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

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.

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....

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

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

She hated him – she hated everything he stood for. But when they said hate is akin to love they were certainly right. Because she needed him with every fibre of her being. And hard...

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Take me now, God!” I shout to the inky sky. “I´m ready.””You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet,” Bunny says. “You cannot die married to that man.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean.”From – “The Mind Game Company – The Players

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

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

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.

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us...

Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power.

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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.