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...

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.

You know, everything’s a sort of lie, and then you die.

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

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

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

She was forthright to the point of rudeness, yet he couldn’t help admiring her for saying what she really thought. It was rather refreshing to be challenged for a change – it had been many...

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

,Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?

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...

I’m outraged not only by his own deception, but his efforts to enlist players and assistant coaches in this scheme,

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse she was to remember the alien abduction, so that nobody would believe her account of the ritual abuse....

I looked at Mum and realized — twang! — that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something...

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

The genre of self-help for depression is littered with well-intentioned books that overpraise solutions and raise false hopes. It would be nice to defeat your depression in ten easy steps, but rarely is it so...

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.

You get what you give,” we will tell his sorry, selfish ass.” The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.”But,” I demur, “it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a...

From Colin A. Ross, 1995: The writer is the brother of the man who co-founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. He is writing to WGBH about a program called ‘Divided Memories’, which you may have...

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Live a life of lies; die a death of truths.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will...

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Don’t fall flat to deception; thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge; you are unstoppable!

If someone is playing on my fear, the natural tendency for a person is to throw all their energy and focus into protecting that vulnerability. But I say if you’re playing on my fear to...

He wasn’t yours to get hurt by. He was someone else’s and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the...

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely...

Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors; to-day it must be prepared to see its black proletariat turn that same...

All war is deception.

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.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn’t, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most...

I’ll say this, Arik: the old man’s warning proved to be true – things are not always what they seem. She was no young lady -” “If it’s the demon you speak of,” interjected Rith,...

I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters.

Do you know how many acres of beautiful forests and moors have been destroyed by your company? How many animals have lost their homes and how many trees have been murdered? I am sick of...

I don’t know why wicked places generally look wicked. You’d think they’d look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

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

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.