#deception

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#deceit #deception #denial #deny #funny

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. "Little thing called character," I say, thinking, Accepting marital advice from me: the height of lunacy. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #age

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé and fettucini Alfredo with a beautiful woman, fondling her fishnet knee and making careful plans to escape his life. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #self-help #beauty

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#life #war #art

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. ↗

— Tadeusz Borowski

#death #deception #death

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#lies #life #truth #life

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #love #lovers #sheep #love

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

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