Quotes About Deception

One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be

Spike," but at some point, he decided to go by "Magic Spike." That tells you everything. In his own mind, he became magic. That was his downfall. And it's the downfall of almost all players and gangsters and hustlers. They get away with breaking the law so many times,

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Voice in the night A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Truthful man: He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Lo Aparente es el Puente hacia lo Real'.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.