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Quotes About Deception

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
~ George Burns
They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.
~ Unknown
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
~ Plautus
I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.
~ Paul Neilan
I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.
~ Eugene Ormandy
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
~ Francis Bacon
The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
~ Robert Breault
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
~ David Mitchell
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.
~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.
~ H. L. Mencken
Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
~ Elvis Costello
Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
~ Harlan Coben
I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."
~ Jim Gaffigan
The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.
~ Julian Fellowes
Don't repeat the lies of the liars.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf