Quotes about Deception
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
— Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
— Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
— Oscar Wilde
I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.
— Oscar Wilde
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.
— Oscar Wilde
Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.
— Oscar Wilde
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
— Oscar Wilde
are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
— Oscar Wilde
Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.
— Oscar Wilde
We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.
— Oscar Wilde
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
— Oscar Wilde
But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.
— Oscar Wilde