78 quotes found
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds be...”
“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”
“My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.”
“Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.”
“In the essence of truth lies deceit.”
“Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend its a party.”
“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
“One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things is that not a sage indeed?”
“Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees”
“In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happene...”
“When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.”
“Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.”
“Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.”
“Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see leading and serving as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatibl...”
“In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.”
“OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESIt is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~”
“Never judge someone by their relatives.”
“Dear lover, pull my ears and not my legs for it is better to be cautioned than to be lied to.”
“Dream It, Believe In It, And Achieve It.”
