Quotes About Deception

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

I mean, the conservative movement in this country has been selling a pack of lies for a long time.

You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

Don't tell me that Colonel Parker or Brian Epstein didn't tell a little lie from time to time.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. Rahul Gandhi's real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

When my wife's sister passed away, Bernie Madoff came to the funeral. That was the type of individual that we all thought he was - a very caring individual.

You can see that just with the passing, you can destroy the defense.

To lie is to degrade and besmirch oneself," we say, and yet all civilized life becomes one huge lie. We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man. But a society cannot live thus; it must return to truth or cease to exist.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

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