We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception. — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“War is, at its crux, deception, Dama Khevat taught. A great leader must hold his deceit so close that even he himself… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
“They were Catholic, my lovers, All in an access of crossing themselves, Particularly their fingers Behind their suspendered backs-- And that was… — Shay Caroline Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something,… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
“I love you too much to let you pretend that you’re something you’re not. And while there might be a lot of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make… — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
“I´m just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You said you'd always be there for me, but I guess that was just another one of your lies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be. — Charlotte Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
I had to let you go, not because I'm tired of loving you, but because my heart can no longer hold on… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
“Far too often, the best thing I can have in my hand when someone makes a promise is a really big broom… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Though deception is seen as an attack upon the other, deception is a tool of emotional suicide of oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.” — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
“To a certain extent, Social Media is the legalised place of deception, with its zigzag rules. It falls under gaming the system… — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass” — Ashley Newell Copy Share Image
“Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!” — L. Michelle Rhames Copy Share Image
“I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
All guys favorite lines are my mom said I can't date .When they are to scared to break up wit you .ironic. — Miranda Copy Share Image
