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Quotes About Deception

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
~ Thomas Fuller
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
~ Ruth Brown
Crying wolf is a real danger.
~ David Attenborough
There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
~ Henry Paulson
The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
~ Hesiod
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.
~ Rick Wakeman
A woman should be an illusion.
~ Ian Fleming
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
~ Hesiod
Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
~ Federico Fellini
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
~ Susan B. Anthony
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
~ Michael Caine
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
~ Lord Byron
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.
~ Charles Bukowski
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
~ Roger Penrose
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
~ Eric Hoffer
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
~ Jose Bergamin
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
~ Jackie Collins
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
~ Sidney Poitier
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
~ Jacques Derrida
Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
~ Helen Fisher
They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
~ Cesar Romero
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell