Quotes About Deception

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

By folding often, I give other players the false impression that I'm a weak player - a player who can be easily bluffed. Trust me; I'm not a weak player.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

With foxes we must play the fox.

Only a genius can play a fool.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

We now know that Mr. Obama lied to the American people with his pledge 'If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.'

Nowadays, the actors who say that they get plenty of scripts everyday but don't have time to go through them are nothing but big liars. The reality is - they don't even have a single script in their hand!

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.