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Quotes About Deception

El 28% de las mujeres de la página web declaraban ser rubias, un número bastante superior a la media, lo cual indica grandes dosis de tinte, de mentira, o de ambos.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Ante cualquier incentivo, cualquier situación, la gente deshonesta tratará de obtener un beneficio sin importar los medios a emplear.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation,dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.
~ Steven D. Levitt
They mistook the smoke for the fire.
~ Steven Johnson
as Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson later noted,1 "in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus ("this is the body"), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.
~ Steven Kotler
Our visual systems can play tricks on us, and that is enough to prove they are gadgets, not pipelines to the truth.
~ Steven Pinker
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. —George Carlin
~ Steven Pinker
As for government euphemism, it is contemptible not because it is a form of mind control but because it is a form of lying.
~ Steven Pinker
Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived.
~ Steven Pinker
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People who serve you without love get even behind your back.
~ Walt Whitman
You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.
~ Abel Hermant
Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
~ Lyle Lovett
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.
~ Fanny Brice
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
~ Glen Duncan
I will always love the false image I had of you.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
True liars never love. True lovers never lie.
~ Jeffree Star
I love advertising because I love lying.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
~ John Dryden
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
~ Georg Buchner
False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master.
~ Hank Hanegraaff
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
~ Jean Genet