Quotes About Deception

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

It takes a lot more energy to be covert and sneaky than it does to be open and honest.

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it

Talk is cheap — except when Congress does it.

politics is a dead game with no brother

Bad things happened. The people closest to you surprised you in the most disappointing ways.

You have to fool yourself before you can fool the audience.

Could be he was a demon. Low-level. Many politicians were.

You think you know someone," she whispered. "You think you understand a person, then you find out all the secrets and lies. So many secrets." Sadness pulled at her. "Do we ever really know anyone? Or do we just know what people want us to believe?

You might think you can trust someone, but you can't. People lie. They deceive.

Turned out there was some big, bad Wolf in my good boy after all.

A secret is a burden. It's exhausting, a lie.

If you want to get away with something, don't announce it first.

Leaving out isn't the same as lying.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;

Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.

Sono gli impiegati che inventano, in fin dei conti, tutte queste scartoffie [i passaporti] per avvelenare la vita agli uomini, e le loro disposizioni non vanno prese troppo sul serio.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

I'm not sure if he physically changes, or if he uses some kind of mind control to make you think he looks different, but the bottom line is you don't always see him coming. And make no mistake about it, the guy is evil.

Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common