#deception

The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving. ↗

— Cambria Hebert

#deception #snow #beauty

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#deception #elevates #host #low #than

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#deception #greatest #opinions #own #suffer

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#absolutely #both #charm #deception #life

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#big #deception #flowing #god #his

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american people #based #bringing #choice #congress

Politicians are masters of the art of deception. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#deception #masters #politicians

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #deceived #deception #habitual #life

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#easy #hard #hard work #reality #work

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #respect #self-deception #truth #love