Quotes About Deception

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.