268 quotes found
“Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.”
“Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone canfor a time. But not a very long time.”
“There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.”
“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent naturea mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.”
“To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.”
“Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evoluti...”
“Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.”
“Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.”
“In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.”
“..deceivers must expect to be deceived.”
“Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.”
“Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.”
“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, w...”
“Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!-Petra Godfellow”
“I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.”
“87.Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aim Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral...”
“The thing is, Ms. Embers, they arent exactly on our side.”
“The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story.”
“Mundus vult decipi'the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutua...”
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
