Quotes About Deception

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

First appearance deceives many.

Appearances are often deceiving.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I thought Keith Raniere was the greatest, wisest, most brilliant man on Earth. I had no idea what was going on with the women and everything that came out in the FBI's investigation.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.

I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.