#deception

People are secretive when they have secrets. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#people #secretive #secrets #life

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#life-quotes #pride #window #life

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good. ↗

— David Salle

#self-deception #love

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lying #self-deception #vision #visionaries #vision

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#fools #self-deception #truth #willful-blindness #willful-ignorance

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#devil

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-delusion #fool

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#lying #deception

It's not unfortunate that people aren't genuine; what's unfortunate is that insincere people try to act sincere and in doing so, mislead and deceive the other. I would rather meet a person who is not amiable and who does not feel any burden to act amiable towards me, than to have the misfortune of knowing people who feel like they need to be gracious and compassionate so they will appear to be good people, whilst possessing none of those qualities within themselves! It's the latter that causes the pain in life. And that's another reason why I don't believe in religion; I have observed that religion tells people that it is highly prized a quality to act kind and compassionate and so on and so forth, but some people just do not have these innate qualities within them! We get deceived, and I'd rather not be deceived! I'd rather be able to see a person for who he/she is and not judge a brute for being a brute, but avoid the brute who carries the burden of acting like a wonderful one! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#being-real #being-sincere #deceptions #foresight #genuineness