Quotes about Deception

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blase sophistication.