Quotes About Deception

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.

My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'

Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. Leaders who do this can be manipulative and often hold the goals and aspirations of their followers hostage in order to get them to comply.

I feel like it's such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of 'Cosmo's or 'Glamour's or whatever, all at once. Because you start realizing how they're just talking about nothing for many pages, and they sort of lull you into this hypnotic state.

'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

If you look at what these politicians do when they speak, most of the time they are trying to convey a tone... if I make all these points and move my hands this way, I can get re-elected. When in reality, they aren't saying anything.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Bluffing is most effective when done sporadically; bluff too often, and you'll blow your credibility.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.