Deception/motives

Famous quotes containing the words deception and/or motives:

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
—Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)

“The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)