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Quotes About Deception

A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals.
~ C. Elizabeth
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
~ Edmund Burke
In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions
~ Sunday Adelaja
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill
~ Fausto Coppi
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
~ George Orwell
blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
~ Ursula Curtiss
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
~ Penelope Cruz
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
~ Michel de Montaigne
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.
~ Judah the Prince
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
~ Douglas Adams
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.
~ David Irving
I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.
~ Pedro
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
~ Richard Linklater
No lie ever reaches old age.
~ Sophocles
When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.
~ Carol Leifer
Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.
~ Robert Bryce
How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.
~ Joan Rivers
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
~ Thomas Pynchon
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
~ Matt Taibbi
The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.
~ Kaori Ozaki, The Gods Lie
The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back but you don't know how far.
~ Anonymous
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
~ Lyman Beecher