Quotes About Deception

For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Only lie about the future.

Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Last time I saw him he tried to murder me. But when you're trying to kill someone by chopping their head off, rolling them up in a carpet and lighting it on fire, you better make sure they're dead!

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?