Quotes on “deception”

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

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.?

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.