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Quotes About Deception

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
~ Toni Morrison
People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.
~ Jim Butcher, Cold Days
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.
~ Alexander Chee
If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.
~ Behdad Sami
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
~ David Hockney
If you have a lair then you are probably not a good person.
~ Demetri Martin
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.
~ Francesca Lia Block
There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
~ Holly Black
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
~ Jane Smiley
All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.
~ Jeff Iorg
I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
"You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar."
~ Joan Bauer
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
~ John Ruskin
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?
~ Laurence Olivier
"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened.
~ Maria V. Snyder
It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.
~ Melvin Konner
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
~ Penn Jillette
It takes good memory to keep up a lie
~ Pierre Corneille
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
~ Quintilian
Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
~ Ovid