Quotes About Deception

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.