Quotes About Deception

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

How bad is it?" "The story is only just now being reported, but let's put it this way," HARV said. "The bag is now clearly catless, and there's a very foul odor coming from the fan.

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.