#deception

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#devil

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#bahamas #deception #friendship #natural-hurricanes #second-chances

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls. ↗

— Herman Cain

#am #american #american people #believe #blame

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#big #deception #flowing #god #his

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american people #based #bringing #choice #congress

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#easy #hard #hard work #reality #work

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-delusion #fool

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#lying #deception