Quotes about Deception

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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly f — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. — Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their — Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. — Jim Butcher, White Night
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 — Ashly Lorenzana
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. — Walter Scott, Marmion
People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see — Zoë Marriott, Shadows on the Moon
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyon — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a li — Jane Austen, Emma
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. — Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes
There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, t — Israelmore Ayivor
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies. — George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be. — Charlotte Armstrong