Quotes About Deception

Did you hear that? a woman asked. I crouched behind the growth. No. No, you didn't hear anything. Don't mind me, I'm not hiding the corpse of a nasty creature behind your flower bed. Nope. Nothing here but cute, fluffy bunnies scampering adorably into the night...

The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept.

And those who love us most lie to us most of all

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Slide decks are only as great as their giant, useless appendixes, so make sure yours has a ton of useless, not even remotely relevant slides in it. You'll look like you really did your research.

Some of the best scams that you get are the ones that pretend to come from friends of yours, because you can just say anything you want, because a scammer has no idea about your relationship with that person.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.

The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.