Quotes About Deception

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

The reason you think history is white is because you've been lied to.

During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.

If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran - and laughing about it - was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton's spin doctors get hold of the media.

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.