“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does. — Karl Germain Copy Share Image
When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably.… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you… — Kyle Schmalenberg Copy Share Image
For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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