Quotes About Deception

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

there are ways to be dishonest that fall short of actual lying.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

PREFER DEATH TO a lying word, for the ripple-effect of its plunder is worse. When a man dies, he dies alone— but many are slain with the lie and its curse. —AVRAHAM IBN HASDAI (C. 915–990)

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is interesting. But what they hide is vital.

Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not, no, there are not. let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence; for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities to waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those who live calm pious lives day by day.

I don't feel anything but rage for the person who gave me a secret I didn't want.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.

'Mr. Robot' is more directly about technology, and 'Homecoming' deals more with the pharmaceutical industry, but I think they're all part and parcel of this growing sense that things are happening behind the scenes at our expense, and we're not aware of it.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

I won't divulge the details, but there's a way to call somebody's phone and have whatever number you want appear on the caller I.D. so that the call you're making appears to be coming from someone else.

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.