Quotes About Deception

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

I've always hated people in costumes with big heads, where you don't know what's behind it.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.

In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's easier to believe that my discomfort comes from some fact that is being hidden from me.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

A picture can hide as much as it reveals.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Demagogues always have something to hide.

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

My mom was so good at hiding the bad in life that I thought all of life was good.