Quotes About Deception

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

When I was a kid and getting paid to stand in front of a camera. I used to spend a lot of my time just laughing inside about the whole thing. It wasn't real to me. I couldn't act and I damn well knew it. I kept expecting someone to see the joke and call the whole thing off at any moment. Fortunately, no one ever did.

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.

Fraud is corrosive, but so is claiming fraud where there is none.

Nicolas Maduro is a fraud. He is a fake. He is a charlatan.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

With commerce comes fraud.

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.

You don't have to be a criminal to write about fraud!

If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being was overwhelmed by her... by her mentality, really. For of course the physical resemblance of the lance-corporal was mere subterfuge. Lance-corporals do not resemble young ladies.

In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor - a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character or in one's career. For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one's small meannesses. It is really death to do so - that is why so many marriages turn out unhappily.

I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold.

Now a man listening to gossip about another man whom he knows very well will go pretty far in the way of believing what a beautiful woman will tell him about that other man. Beauty and truth have a way of appearing to be akin; and it is true that no man knows what another man is doing when he is out of sight.

I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.