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.

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...