Quotes About Deception

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

The nature of business is swindling.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Suckers have no business with money anyway.