Quotes About Deception

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways,Are the children of Men.

To make the worse appear the better reason.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.

It hit me then. Hard. The actual driver I'd hired had been in the trunk the entire time.

I chuckled without humor and sat up in the chair. "If I'm not mistaken, you just asked me how much to kill your daughter?

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.

It occurred to me that his words had a shadow. Or teeth and claws, and blood. Some kind of invisible whip. How words can be a trap, a trick and a net, not for butterflies or birds, or lions! The things that words promise.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Whatever cannot be seen, conceived at once, thru simple reasoning is humbug, and not science!

Why should one exaggerate and distort things, if one does not feel disturbed and frightened by them? 'Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we wish to be deceived?' says Bishop Butler, and thereby gives the best description of the serene and 'healthy' eighteenth-century sense of reality with its aversion to all illusion.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themselves doctor something-or-other, and then you look them up, and they're trying to make it sound like something it's not. There's this entire field that's adding the word 'quantum' to everything. It doesn't even make sense in that context.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

I never wanted to see another quiz show.