Quotes About Deception

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

There is no way at all that Diana was mentally unstable. There is nothing wrong with expecting your husband to be faithful and being angry when he isn't. Diana had every reason to believe that Charles and Camilla never stopped seeing each other.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

I have never met anyone who gave back a heart they stole.

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an' burglary.

There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.