#deception

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#jump #just #many #mechanisms #might

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #deception #even #profit #sweet

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#eyes #gag #greatness #loosen #our

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ↗

— Robert Southey

#deception #else #falsehood #indeed #into

The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception. ↗

— John Sununu

#believe #campaign #comes #deception #house

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. ↗

— John Ruskin

#essence #lying #words

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#deception #having #keep #nothing #up

I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#deceit #deceived #deception #delirious #funny

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. ↗

— Osamu Dazai

#deception #human #life #life

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#age