Quotes About Deception

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence.

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.

Lying – remembering beauty in truth.

I hate reality shows that are not reality.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Reality TV is anything but.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Reality TV is not real.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I had a lot of those fake friends. You just have to realize it's happening. You can't get caught up in the 'Oh, my God, they want to be my friend, finally' aspect.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don't exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.

We didn't want to receive the Grammy. We knew that we were going to get caught.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I'd be the first to tell you that stats lie and at receiver more than any other position, stats lie.

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.