Quotes About Deception

Laurino thought a jury could well interpret the back-and-forth of the girls as a not very elaborate cat-and-mouse game, orchestrated by Mari, who pretended she needed the tutelege of the sexually experienced Leslie, who, of course, was eager to guide her protegee, eager to prove just how experienced she was.

Ühiskonnas tõuseb lihtsamalt ja kiiremini kõrgele see, kes oskab kütkestada, mõrtsukaid liita, valeinformatsiooni levitada, kui see, kes oskab toota uusi mõtteid ja asju.

Quand on s'est habitué aux mensonges, la vérité a l'air suspecte.

Le péché vaut mieux que l'hypocrisie.

Cela vous inquiète ? - Non. Les changements ne sont pas inquiétants. L'immobilité et le mensonge sont bien pires.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.

Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiß, der ist bloß ein Dummkopf. Aber wer sie weiß und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher.

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

Chi non conosce la verità è soltanto uno sciocco; ma chi, conoscendola, la chiama bugia, è un malfattore!

Dogsborough: That stock-offering was like the bowl of salted nuts They put on the bar for free: satisfies your hunger for nothing, But leaves you with a costly thirst.

The Ballad of Mac the Knife Fair in Soho. The beggars are begging, the thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring. A ballad singer sings a ballad. See the shark with teeth like razors. All can read his open face. And Macheath has got a knife, but Not in such an obvious place. See the shark, how red his fins are As he slashes at his prey. Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which Give the minimum away.

FILCH: Oh, you use them again? Why can't I do the better days act? PEACHUM: Because nobody can make his own suffering sound convincing, my boy. If you have a bellyache and say so, people will simply be disgusted.

Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. Royalty exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.

Everything was perception; nothing was real.

This is why people don't like Washington, D.C., you just said something that I did not say and attributed it to me. This is your trick of the trade, to confuse and incite based on fear.

There is never 'a' lie but immediately a second lie – the one we tell ourselves that we've not told a lie.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.