Quotes about Deception

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things — is that not a sage indeed?

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.

Listen Sut. We're painted into a corner anyways. I mean what if we was to just call up and say he died? I mean hell fire, you caint fool them guys. Them guys is doctors. They take one look at him and know for a fact he's been dead six months. How does it smell in there? It smells fuckin awful.