Quotes About Deception

Ronan, for his part, couldn't quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. "It's a whole industry of bullshit," he said.

Maybe the mind's best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things. Over and again in the draft you saw these crystal-clear pictures form in the minds of basketball experts which later proved a mirage.

I didn't recognize but now know to be Liar's Poker.

That guy might look like Arnold but it can't possibly be Arnold because Arnold would never be out alone on a bike at seven in the morning, trying to commit suicide.

How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence.

It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it's amazing what people will believe. Heavy selling out of the Middle East was an old standby. Since no one ever had any clue what the Arabs were doing with their money or why, no story involving Arabs could ever be refuted. So if you didn't know why the dollar was falling, you shouted out something about Arabs.

Moses could have walked in the door, and if he said he came from fixed income, Vinny wouldn't have trusted him

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

I have hated hypocrisy and deception all my life, yet all my life I have been victim to it. That is the terrible irony.

Be wary of this devil-blade, Moonglum. It kills the foe - but savours the blood of friends and kinfolk most.

Secrets are lies by another name.

I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.

A well-told lie is worth a thousand facts

You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

What do you hate most? he asks. -A lie. And you? -Ownership, he says. When you leave me, forget me.

them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."*

the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.

Being booked for simulation is never good.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.