Quotes About Deception

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Israel cannot afford to be duped.

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

TV can edit things to make anyone look good or bad.

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

No athlete entered 2012 with more and left it with less than Lance Armstrong.

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

nunca te fíes de quienes dicen servir a Dios. Te hablarán con serenidad y buenas palabras, tan cultas que no alcanzarás a entenderlas. Tratarán de convencerte con argumentos que sólo ellos saben hilvanar hasta adueñarse de tu razón y tu conciencia.

Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.

I don't know what I expected. No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

Er erklärte mir, der Faschismus habe doch auch viele Menschen aus dem Proletariat getäuscht und sie müßten aufgeklärt, wie er sagte: 'umerzogen' werden, denn es handle sich um 'entwicklungsfähige Proletarier', die auf den richtigen Weg gebracht werden müßten.

Janta mass fooling day

There are words, looks that can kill, no one notices, everybody is clinging to a facade, a complete distortion.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.

You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say -Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown