Quotes About Deception

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot of grey depressing ones that aren't on Google.

For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

We were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty.

I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.

You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad.

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

I was Satan's right hand man.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

It is always important to look beyond a pleasant visage.

I lied," said the Dog cheerily. "That's one of the reasons I'm the Disreputable Dog. Besides

Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .

If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar. —1 John 4:20

For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. —Titus 1:10

Then we knew he was lying.

How could he? The