Quotes About Deception

A man does not marry a girl, nor a woman. He marries a promise, and it shines with a bright purity that is ageless. It shines, in other words, with the glory of lies. The deception is self inflicted. The promise was simple in its form, as befitted the thick-headedness of young men, and in its essence it offered the delusion that the present moment was eternal; that nothing would change; not the fires of desire, not the flesh itself, not the intense look in the eye.

Victory is an illusion. In all things.

Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.

I cannot help what I am – and that is the first lie, the one I uttered to myself long ago.

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

One of the first shows I ever did was 'Laverne & Shirley.' I played this sleazy guy that came into town with a friend and was going to date Laverne and Shirley, but we really wanted to get into the bowling alley because it was next to the bank we wanted to rob.

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

I think so many things look like a penalty in slow motion.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

America is smarter than the politicians. America is demanding a change and not more of the same cronyism, not more of the same deception, corruption, and business. Washington, D.C., needs to be shaken up.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.