Quotes About Deception

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don't be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

In L.A., it's not on the surface. Everything is in the cracks. The restaurant out front will look like this old, boring place, and you'll go inside, and it's this lush, beautifully designed restaurant.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's.

I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.