Quotes About Deception

Il n'y a rien de gentil à laisser de faux espoirs. L'ambiguïté est la source de la douleur.

No condenéis a los mentirosos. En el fondo del alma de todo aquel que miente no hay quizá más que un instinto confuso de estética y de perfección.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your perception of what's real around you.

I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I'm able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

The coward's weapon, poison.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.

Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

In the '80s, I wore these glasses because I was trying to look like a square to outsmart the po-po, you feel me? It was what we call 'throw off methods.' So I wear little glasses.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.