When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's…

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls…

— Oscar Wilde

“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.”

— Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

— Oscar Wilde

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense…

— Oscar Wilde

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is…

— Lois

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others;…

— Elspeth Huxley

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Perhaps the reader is astonished by the frankness with which I expose and emphasize my mediocrity; let him remember that frankness is the virtue…

— Machado de Assis

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

— LeBron James

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

— Horace

“You're a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“Know all ritual, ceremony, and conditions to be arbitrary (you have yourself to please): in the end, they are just a hindrance and a…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Dan Ariely did a study in which people were given the opportunity to cheat on a test. (They didn’t know the researchers administering the…

— Eric Barker