Quotes About Deception

Studies show that while few people are good at detecting factual lies, most of us can determine when someone is distorting, manufacturing, or withholding an emotion.

What they really mean is that "numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers." With this, I completely agree,

This is one of the oldest tricks in the book for sinful leaders: once you get into power, take whatever you can from the people, but all in the name of a higher good. This higher good may be God, or patriotism, or humanistic brotherhood, or democracy, but what all such power-abusers really want is more power for themselves.

They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received the candy they were promised.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. (Noli Me Tangere)

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

Don't cheat others and more important is don't get cheated by others.

Some things look better inside of the store.

Dont listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets.

My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me.

Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go.

Ive seen it all before. Now that its over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

I swear niggas be eyein me all hard and lyin to they girls and drivin the same cars.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.

Man is primarily a delusional and a deceitful species. He fabricates, alters, invents, and puts forth as fact what is frequently applied only to fiction.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

We wear the mask that grins and lies...

Similarly, the hit car show Top Gear has twice been caught faking a scenario where an electric car runs out of power during a review or feature to make for a more entertaining storyline.19

But whenever we find ourselves describing someone's ability in terms of societal measures of success—prizes, wealth, fancy titles—rather than in terms of what they are capable of doing, we ought to worry that we are deceiving ourselves. Put another way, the cynic's question, if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?