Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

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.

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

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

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.

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

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

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.