Quotes About Deception

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.