Quotes About Deception

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

A wig is a wig is a wig.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.