862 Quotes About Deception

Lies upon lies. Once you started lying, you had to continue, and then it was like being captain of a leaky ship, always plugging holes in the side to stop yourself sinking.

Love doesn't deceive us: we deceive ourselves with love.

Unscrupulous political movers, dishonest politicians, and Machiavellian manipulators are among the endless toxic snakes of any society. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from CalunniatopiaBook 1, Stronzata Trilogy

Ignoring is that magical slight-of-hand where we make something disappear by simply ceasing to acknowledge its existence. But we must remember that slight-of-hand never results in dead-and-gone.

It is amazing how we can make reverse look like forward.

Be careful of gifts bearing Greeks.

Too often we allow the lyrics to sneak in under the melody.

Lying once makes it easier to do it the next time and the time after that. Deceit has a funny way of propagating until it finally destroys the thing it was attempting to protect. Sam in Blackhorse Road A Novel.

Before awakening, the order of the day brings quite the bite, a sting - a find in light of dreams. Like nightmares' love supreme, phenomenology sings of the unconscious this highly common theme: '...Seeking sovereignty...Using fragments of things...The mind, it tries and pines...For a rise through false wings...And hides one's shortcomings...Behind the heights of these...Lofty philosophies...' And that's the fall of kings.