Quotes About Deception

Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

Reality is what you can get away with.

those who cheat for you will cheat against you.

audiences have been successfully manipulated by those who use social evidence, even when that evidence has been openly falsified.

Exodus 23:8–"And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Aunque para la mayoría de nosotros esta posibilidad parece remota, puede ser más real de lo que creemos. La idea de que no se puede persuadir a ninguna persona inocente a confesar un crimen, en especial uno de gravedad, es errónea. Y, de hecho, ocurre con una frecuencia perturbadora.

That is, the car salespeople I observed threw the low-ball by proposing sweet deals, getting favorable decisions as a result, and then taking away the sweet part of the offers.

quienes hacen trampas por ti también te las harán a ti.

The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

people who believe the game is rigged are easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas.

Moreover, people who believe the game is rigged are easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas.

If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 Jn 4:20).

It is not so much by any power inherent in himself that the magician works, as by the ductility of that material of gaping credulity upon which he operates.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Horror is the removal of masks.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

The world is deceived by nothing. It must be given something by which to seem deceived.

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.