The practice of deception and illusion can bring about many unexpected things. These quotes about trickery capture what it is like to be taken aback by something that is not planned for.
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”
“And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy”
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
“His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.”
“I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels.”
“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth–then shut up.”
“I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life?”
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
“It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.”
“Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
“People are secretive when they have secrets.”
“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.”
“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”
“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.”
“Some things just couldn’t be protected from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off…Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”
“Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier.”
“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
“Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”
“The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.”
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.”
“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.”
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
Dealing with sabotage and trickery is just one reason why peace is unable to be achieved.
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