A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
AesopMots clés friendship friends enemies falsehood double-talk disguise reliability
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith WhartonMots clés friends kindness family loneliness falsehood pretense insincerity
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
Vera NazarianMots clés lies playing lie illusion games acting falsehood pretend game pretense act artifice pretending pretence
So may the outward shows be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mots clés religion virtue law falsehood vice pretense appearances ornament
Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it:
So are those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known
To be the dowry of a second head,
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest.
Mots clés beauty falsehood pretense appearances ornament
Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
BEATRICE
Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
DON PEDRO
You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
BEATRICE
So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
Mots clés honesty love men women falsehood dishonesty betrayal deceit hearts payback
There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude
Thornton WilderMots clés truth lies falsehood
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.
Anna GodbersenMots clés disillusionment pain falsehood fury
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
J.R.R. TolkienMots clés lies falsehood liars melkor
I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose)] himself calls the daughter of God, should put forth such a statement as ... where she says by way of a proverb that "in the war of Love it is better to deceive than be deceived." And indeed I dare say that in making that statement Jean den Meun's Reason denied her Father, for the doctrine He gave was altogether different.
Christine de PizanMots clés love reason falsehood dishonesty betrayal deceit romance-of-the-rose
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