“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”

“I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.”

“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.”

“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!”

“Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.”

“He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.”