Quotes About Deception

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.

When all these huge offers start coming in, people see dollar signs. People see fame. I just knew that it was a lie. Unless you really hit it off in radio right away - a lot of my friends didn't, and they were getting put in so many horrible positions where they were getting stuck. They weren't even allowed to release music.

Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.

I'm very good at pretending to be subservient; I'm really good at it.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.