Quotes About Deception

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

I've actually seen guys do that - cheat on their girlfriends at parties and then lose it with rage when they find out they've also been cheated on.

Everyone thinks that Prince and I had a beautiful, romantic love affair, but we didn't. We just let people think that in order to promote 'Purple Rain.'

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter can no longer find enough new investors to pay off the people who have already put up money, and the scheme collapses.

The only way President Obama and his cohorts could sell Obamacare was to conceal the law's true ramifications and convince those who were already content with their health insurance that they wouldn't be affected.

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false claims; any revelations merely provide further opportunities for details and forgery.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.

I love 'Game of Thrones.'

No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'

'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.

Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.

'Game of Thrones' is one of my favourite series.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.