Quotes About Deception

thought firing Abu Bakr would have taught you a lesson about lying, conniving and implicating other people in your crimes,' he said. 'I'm amazed Zahra's parents haven't banished you from her life.

The truth isn't just what you see with your eyes. Not just what you see...

The money came in bundles tied with elastic bands, in exchange for the promise of a lorry ride across the border. In many cases, people were dumped off before they even reached the border, and so they were back to square one, back in Turkey, back in Ali's Café, but this time without money. It was groundhog day, a Sisyphean sentence – to endlessly go up and down the airless corridor that never changed, though everything else changed. And never to arrive.

sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

I do not mind mankind's crimes, but I do mind its hypocrisy.

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Left and right in Italy, they've always pretended to fight.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

The Russian government imposed my head on the body of Russian models in straight jackets.

I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible?

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.