(115 quotes found)
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet.”
William Blake
“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.”
Steven Deitz
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
George Orwell
“One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground”
Baltasar Gracian
“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
Bible
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
Noel Coward
“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”
