Quotes About Deception

Mais que penser de la dernière fois, de ses mensonges au sujet du film où il n'aurait pas dû être ? Je suis persuadée maintenant qu'il a eu d'autres femmes en même temps que moi, mais depuis quand

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

The best way to lie is to tell the truth . . . carefully edited truth.

If you're in a card game and you don't know who the sucker is, you're it.

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

People will sell you out for profit, that's just how people are.

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Yes, I will promise you anything your little elector heart desires... Of course, I have no intention of keeping any promise I make.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.