Quotes About Deception

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

A lot of people see scammers as, like, just one guy in a basement with his computer, but actually, I think it's probably almost kind of a call centre.

Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about Bernie Madoff. But everybody finds a justification for their behavior, and obviously, Bernie had a half dozen justifications in his own mind.

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

Kanye West deceives many and will lead many people astray.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

If I am trying to set up someone then I might go up to the keeper and say that I might bowl down the leg side. That's where you feel that if the 'keeper has a longer stint, he will read you better.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

I thought Kim Jong Il was a god who could read my mind. I thought his spirit never dies, and I never thought he was a normal human being.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

When someone thinks they're good at something, you can use it against them, and that's what we did. We did the kiss of death.

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

There is no Kurdish problem.