Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Just because my eyes show no tears...Doesn't mean my heart isn't broken... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I fooled everyone with a huge smile, for years and years. I never showed anyone my tears. — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Pride is a master of deception: when you think you’re occupied in the weightiest business, that’s when he has you in his… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths:… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath… — Lewis Gordon Pugh Copy Share Image
“Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same… — C. J. Redwine Copy Share Image
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
“So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that with care and meticulous… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All warfare is based on deception. For years, the West hypocrisy has made the world a battlefield. The corrupt talk while our… — Vladimer Makarov Copy Share Image
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“I took a final look at my mother’s silhouette in the doorway and tightened my grip on the steering wheel. Hades followed… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
People who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.” — Bill W Copy Share Image
Mass deception Altered our perception Sold it to the children Made a new connection — Cage The Elephant Copy Share Image