George Farquhar Quotes

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

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.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

love is the biggest con of all

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

Whether you're a vampire or werewolf, love is still love. Betrayal is still betrayal.

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.