Quotes About Deception

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

When I was eight, I told my best friend I got a Hilary Duff autograph, but I just signed it myself.

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

Most people offer obvious telltale signs when they're lying.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

'House of Cards' is full of hypocrites, some ashamed, many proud. There is no silver lining here, no appeal to a just system that is temporarily thwarted by corrupting forces.

Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

As with the Pacific Gateway, Canadians were similarly hoodwinked by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP).

I am not as simple as I look.

In all aspects of our society we overcomplicate things under the guise of making things easier and simpler, when in fact we are doing the opposite.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we don't show, we will do.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

Arabs lie. Let me tell you this, Gent, if you don't know it already. We lie for fun, we lie for profit, we lie all the time, and we don't even know why.

Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him.