Chinese Quote by Marco Tempest

“All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”). Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things…

— Anonymous

“Oscar Wilde’s prophecy that “as long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as…

— Steven Pinker

“Romance is a lie that gives people an excuse to act like fools and later blame it on the one whom they had bestowed…

— Quinn Loftis

All war is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

War is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

— Paul Virilio

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

— John McCain

“We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit…

— Chuck Klosterman

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

— James Ellroy

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to…

— Todd Haynes

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

— Martin McGuinness

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer