Quotes About Deception

If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.

No, liebchen, not if it's too painful for you to talk about it." "Devious sheenie bastard." "Devious, yes. Sheenie, yes. Bastard, no. What did you used to do in bed?

You can build a whole world of lies, as long as each lie reinforces every other lie. You can create a masterful structure of sheer logic if you begin with one false postulate. All it takes is consistency.

I watched men win and I watched them lose. They were playing a straight house. Nothing was loaded. The house took its own little percentage and got rich. Money made in bootlegging and gunrunning and dope smuggling and whoremongering was invested quite properly in an entire town that stood as a monument to human stupidity, a boomtown in the state with the sparsest population and the densest people in the country. Vegas.

David Maurer's nonfiction work The Big Con.

Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.

Balthazar sighed and said Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as she is. Each man has his own interpretation.

If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself… which of you will first have the courage to raise it?

If things were always what they seemed, how impoverished would be the imagination of man!

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

How can we trust our loved one, when there is mouthful of lies.....

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!