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.

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.

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...

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

LOVE YOURSELF” does not mean to do only what one feels or perceives is right, but the thing which is morally right for everyone.

There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons alone. They are deceived into fearlessness and trampled by the hooves...

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

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.