Quotes About Deception

An impostor is a man who claims more wealth and courage than he actually possesses. He's a man who begins what he can never finish. On the other hand, those who can make their friends laugh are men of good taste." My

The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.

But by that time I had no interest in learning more about him, and I accepted the role of silent accomplice when it came to my mother's illusions.

Je me demande encore si, tout compte fait, le monde n'étaient qu'apparences.

He took a fine fresh fig from his pocket and washed it meticulously in a glass of water; then he peeled it open before our eyes. Inside, the beautiful fig was crawling with maggots. The imam concluded his lesson by saying, 'It's not a question of washing your bodies, but your souls, young men. If you're rotten inside, neither rivers nor oceans will suffice to make you clean.

I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.

Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.

When people try to lie there are little things that betray the truth.

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you're returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It's a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.

even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

When we make judgements about things based on appearance, instead of on what really matters, we get into trouble.

the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

As I was discovering, even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word of it.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Nothing is ever the way they say it is. Nothing is ever the way you want it to be.

When your appetite hormones are not behaving properly, your brain becomes essentially disconnected from your stomach. It deceives you into thinking you're hungry when you're not, and further stimulates hard-to-resist cravings for foods that will perpetuate that vicious cycle of fat formation. This

Dr. George Mann, a researcher with the Framingham Heart Study, to go on record stating: The diet heart hypothesis that suggests that a high intake of fat or cholesterol causes heart disease has been repeatedly shown to be wrong, and yet, for complicated reasons of pride, profit, and prejudice, the hypothesis continues to be exploited by scientists, fund-raising enterprise, food companies, and even governmental agencies. The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century.

Most politicians have some con artist in them, but worse is the con artist who has some politician in him.

Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage. —Graham Greene