Quotes About Deception

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Seeing is not always believing.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.