Quotes About Deception

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five but mum lied about my age to get me out of the house.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Reality, in general, in my opinion, has gotten blurred.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight

remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Every knave is a thorough knave.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That's usually enough.

How is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.