Quotes About Deception

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

Politicians use economics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination. —variation on a theme of Andrew Lang (1910)

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ~ Alan Turing

Our system of class prejudice is the cleverest piece of self-frustrating daftness since the Tower of Babel, it benefits nobody but a few at the top. We fool ourselves into fooling others into fooling ourselves even more.

To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

De werkelijkheid is louter illusie, maar wel een hardnekkige.

Raffiniert ist Herrgott, doch ein Schwindler ist er nicht.

The youth is poisoned by systematic lies.

A realidade é apenas uma ilusão, apesar de ser uma ilusão bastante persistente.

Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomo?u koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.