#deception

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

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

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#deception #god #hour #i #live

Men still have to be governed by deception. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#governed #men #still

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#deception #dog #everything #left #lies

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#deception #deeply #friends #had #i

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#books #deception #fiction #lies #novels

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#deception #film #art

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#education