Truth About Deception

Quotes about Lying, Love and Infidelity

  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. -- Albert Camus
  • Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. -- Oscar Wilde
  • A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. -- William Blake
  • A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. -- Saki
  • Betrayal can only happen if you love. -- John Le Carre
  • The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived. -- Ninon De Lenclos
  • People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. -- Richard Needham
  • Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. -- H. L. Mencken
  • One is easily fooled by that which one loves. -- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
  • Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies. -- Oscar Wilde

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