Quotes About Deception

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

Modern fake fur looks so much like real fur that the moment it leaves the atelier, no one can tell it's not the real thing. And I've struggled with that.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known him for years, like Ingersoll, did you realize you hardly knew him at all.