Quotes About Deception

Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put on extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

It was a day when I was preparing a speech to be delivered in praise of the Emporor; there would be a lot of lies in the speech and they would be applauded by those who knew that they were lies." The Confessions of St. Augustine

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

Ratones arriba, que todo lo blanco no es harina.

Yo voy a ser tu gran decepción y tú la mía porque vamos a representar allá adentro, acá adentro, a todos los que tienen la soberbia para emprender la tarea de convertir dos vidas en una

Sorry, Roy, I just don't trust you enough to believe that you lied.

It took the hand of God almighty To part the waters and the sea But it only takes one little lie To separate you and me We are not as strong as we think we are.

Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.

Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades.

Narrow, yellow eyes with no visible pupils sparkled with merriment, but the sort of merriment that came from pulling the wings off flies or the arms off experimental subjects.

Caec sunt ducs caecrum. (Matthew 15.14:

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

As great-grandchildren of the Enlightenment, we like to think of ourselves as free moral agents, choosing rationally among possible actions, but Scripture unmasks that cheerful illusion and teaches us that we are deeply infected by the tendency to self-deception.

When you find the difference, I want you to take the thing you no longer wish to believe and push it all the way off into the distance, then move it over and pop it up on the other side so that when you look at it you know it's a lie and you're angry about it.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (III.III)

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).

That's what made it worse, in the end ... when he found out. Nixon had lied to him, personally.

Watch out for dirty tricks. Complain loudly.

I know you are laughing in your sleeve.