Quotes by category:Deception

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

Gerhard Richter

suggestions deception beautiful

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

Graydon Carter

deception book thinking

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Greg LeMond

deception deceiving people

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Grenville Kleiser

deception giving believe

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

George Eliot

fate deception self

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Gregory Maguire

poetic deception self

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

Hans Arp

deception men order

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Hannah More

self-deception deception self

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Harriet Lerner

deception games way

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen

deception marriage agreement

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

Henry Rollins

middle safety deception

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Holly Black

born deception language

What like a bullet can undeceive!

Herman Melville

bullets deception

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Friedrich Nietzsche

deception hypocrisy self

You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.

Haruki Murakami

analysis deception simple

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Herman Melville

deception trying people

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

Ian McDonald

fake deception lying

Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

Ibn Ata Allah

deception heart world

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

Ian Mcewan

deception liars moving

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Imre Kertész

deception country lying