Quotes About Deception

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

People love gentle larceny.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us to the criminal we're also a bit nonplussed when someone gets in there and manipulates forensics to their advantage.

I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side.

Films are about lies. They're about making things look glamorous.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

'The Godfather' is a great movie, but it gives them too much credit. What you don't see is what really takes place: the in-fighting, the lying to each other, the scheming against each other to get power.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

Don't let the good looks and the playboy image fool you. I'm very serious.

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.

This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy; hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

It's perfectly logical,' said Dr Snyder. 'It's absolutely proved. You can't lie.' 'But I can,' said the Martian. 'Work on the logic of that a while, Mack.

I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.

Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the in vain, insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure-—being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long.—