Quotes About Deception

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.

For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist.

I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

We wanted to celebrate the 'Dangerous Deception' release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn't otherwise have one.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

'Raazi,' for me, is a human story - it's much more than just a spy thriller.

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.