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Quotes About Deception

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
~ J. C. Ryle
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.
~ LL Cool J
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
~ Michael Moore
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
~ Abigail Adams
How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
~ Agatha Christie
Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.
~ Anne Sexton
Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.
~ Antonio Porchia
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
That old bald cheater, Time.
~ Ben Jonson
Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?
~ Bob Saget
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.
~ Chris Rock
My head aches every time Donald Trump successfully dodges a question with this reoccurring tactic. What's his worst offense? I don't know. How long is this article?
~ Chrissy Teigen
Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)
~ D. J. MacHale
You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.
~ Dan Chaon
Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."
~ Dane Cook
Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior zooming by, it's completely CGI.
~ Daniel Simon
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
~ David Mamet
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.
~ David Maraniss
Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
~ Dick Morris
That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
~ Dolly Parton
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time
~ Donna Tartt
Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.
~ Tom Upton