Quotes About Deception

The mustached Polish guy turned out to be a mustached FBI guy.

Alls I'm saying is cops can lie to you, but you can't lie to the cops. Which is why we often advise people not to say anything.

I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.

only those with something to hide ever answered question for question and tried to sound outraged to disguise their nervousness.

Hearsay was far more important than knowledge[...]for it is easier to appear knowledgeable than to become so.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

when I stopped lying to myself, stopped trying to make excuses for her. It was as if I woke up from some feverish dream and found myself locked into a nightmare.

Madame Politics is like Venus: they whom she decoys into her castle perish.

She was lying on a sofa, fast asleep. She was so very beautiful that the merchant's son was driven to kiss her. She woke up and was dreadfully frightened, but he said that he was a Prophet of the Turks and he had flown down through the air to see her, and this pleased her very much.

The Emperor's New Clothes.

I only appear to be dead.

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

Betrayed and deceived. Deceived and defrauded. But at once I shrug my shoulders: that's right! Lower and lower. Deeper and deeper into it. Now there's no holding back!

better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

They minute people fall in love they become liars.