Top 73 Deception Love Quotes

#1. The heart will find solace after a lost love, but once the soul is betrayed and broken it will always bleed and the wounds will never really heal,,,,

Camelia C.

#2. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#3. Love cannot reconcile with deception

Susan Abulhawa

#4. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

Agatha Christie

#5. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

#6. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. For you, it's all about money, money, money. But what about the forests I say? Some of those trees have been there for hundreds of years. What right have you to destroy that?

Emily Arden

#8. Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception ... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium ... Photograph and be photographed.

Alexander Rodchenko

#9. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.

Micheal Rivers

#10. Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me.
Delaney nodded. That doesn't mean you want to be found. Come on. One drink.

Holly Hood

#11. I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

P.C. Cast

#12. From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.

Claudia Moscovici

#13. Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be,
As if the story of a house
Were told or ever could be.

Edwin Robinson

#15. I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it's a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#16. 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

#17. To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#18. Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

Mary Shelley

#19. In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Suzanne Finnamore

#21. You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days ... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

Ludwig Von Mises

#23. I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).

Richard Baxter

#24. Love is selflessly honest, even if it comes from deception.

Saurabh Dudeja

#25. Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again - words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!

Erich Maria Remarque

#26. Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.

Abbi Glines

#28. Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.

Molly Friedenfeld

#29. Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds.

Vironika Tugaleva

#30. The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story.

Nikki Rosen

#31. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

Neil T. Anderson

#32. Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Micheal Rivers

#33. All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.

Emily Thorne

#34. And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception; just a friend or something else ... perhaps it was time to find out.

Melanie Cusick-Jones

#35. In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#36. When a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections.."
"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

Gaston Leroux

#37. A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#38. Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

Honore De Balzac

#39. Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

Donna Lynn Hope

#40. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Bonnie Eaker Weil

#41. Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

Henry Rollins

#42. Love is a deception that gives the illusion that we're not alone in this world. But we are. We are so terribly alone.

S.L. Boo

#43. Charlie had always been a sucker for this part ... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies ... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you ... truly understands you ... to your soul ... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself.

Ed Brubaker

#44. It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Christian Scriver

#45. i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.

Kay M. Rutherford

#46. If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

Germaine Greer

#47. Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Ben Macintyre

#48. Which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace.

Marcel Proust

#49. Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#50. Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

Darrell Drake

#51. one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

Graham Greene

#52. Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken.

T. Scott McLeod

#53. 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.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#54. She would have said that love was hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant postration

Alice Munro

#55. The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.

Katie Klein

#56. Love! In the midst of deception, you are my trust.

Debasish Mridha

#57. deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#58. Do you know how many acres of beautiful forests and moors have been destroyed by your company? How many animals have lost their homes and how many trees have been murdered? I am sick of being bothered by you people.

Emily Arden

#59. Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past training and lives. Our stories, our lives, will go on. I refuse to allow that love to die, just because it was never real.

Greg Bear

#60. Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Eleanora Duse

#61. Love is beautiful,
A beautiful deception.
One falls in it
To deceive the other

Amit Abraham

#62. And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Alberto Moravia

#63. I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Franz Grillparzer

#64. Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception.

Dorothy Dunnett

#65. She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous
so predictably easy.

Kristin Cast

#66. If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Joyce Meyer

#67. And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

John F. Kerry

#68. Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.

Scott B. Pruden

#69. To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas.

Harshit Walia

#70. It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows ... even if that one is you.

Michelle Horst

#71. Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

Kiese Laymon

#72. Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.

Molly Friedenfeld

#73. [ ... ]patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

Michelle McKinney Hammond

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