Quotes about Deception

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.