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 triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology...

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

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.

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

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

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

And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.

People trust their eyes above all else – but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

It wasn’t a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

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

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids...

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear – He will inevitably fall in love with the devil.

I can’t count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

I love you as the mother of my child”: the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé and fettucini Alfredo with a beautiful woman, fondling her fishnet knee and making careful plans to escape his life.

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

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

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 did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty...

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance…that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

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

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...

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts.

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

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

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.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

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

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can’t see when we’re in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves...

The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but...

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, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it’s hard to know what story is actually being told.

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.]

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.