Quotes About Deception

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Art lies in concealing art.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

The truth echoed in her head. On the same day she met him, he had tried to kill her. Her mate.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax.

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called "artist's world.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.