268 quotes found
“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
“The medicine to fear, these days, is a dose of reality! Because these days the reality is far worse than the disembodiment of the ideal. People today are afraid of the disembodiment of the ideal, b...”
“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 recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”
“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 caf across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuiss...”
“Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.”
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
“...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.”
“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”
“People are secretive when they have secrets.”
“A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it tryi...”
“When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.”
“Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that ...”
“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.”