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Quotes About Deception

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.
~ Derren Brown
Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
~ Andrei A. Gromyko
The KKK members that I was dealing with never saw me because my interaction with them occurred over the phone. They were convinced that I was 1) white, and 2) a racial supremacist like them based strictly on my telephone conversation with them.
~ Ron Stallworth
I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
~ Peter Tosh
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
~ Unknown
If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
~ Paul Scofield
The globalists are smart and tell us sin is fun, sin is a red-devil cheerleader.
~ Alex Jones
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
~ Douglas Coupland
I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
~ Rabih Alameddine
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
~ Teller
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what's going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.
~ Robert Greene
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
~ Jonathan Frid
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
~ Aristotle
It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
~ Nicholas Haslam
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
~ Aristotle
A lot of people live by telling lies. I live by telling the truth.
~ Boosie
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
~ Anthony Hope
As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.
~ Andrea Riseborough
Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.
~ Paula White
Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do.
~ Rupi Kaur