Quotes About Deception

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.

Let's face it, the White House is a treacherous place.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

The average person tells a few white lies.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.