Deception Quotes - Page 27

• "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

  Charles Dickens

  Jobs, Words Of Wisdom, Tears

  Charles Dickens (1873). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.477

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• [The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

  Joyce Meyer

  Prayer, School, Scary

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• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Encounters, Sexuality

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

  Herman Melville

  People, Trying, Wealth

  Herman Melville (2015). “Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville”, p.17, 谷月社

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• To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

  Sophocles

  Hope, Men, Desire

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• Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?

  John Dos Passos

  Wise, Truth, Lying

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Taken, Self, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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