Quotes about Deception
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
- Oscar Wilde
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is easily killed.
- Oscar Wilde
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
- Oscar Wilde
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- Oscar Wilde
I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
- Oscar Wilde
Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.
- Oscar Wilde
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
- Oscar Wilde
One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things — is that not a sage indeed?
- Confucius
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
- Cormac McCarthy