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Quotes About Deception

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior.
~ Rick Wilson
Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can't trick people into laughing.
~ James Ransone
I would say the best trick I've pulled was putting salt instead of sugar in Phil Neville's tea.
~ Nikita Parris
Well you know, the big trick with 'Saw,' the sleight of hand that you have to pull off is that - spoiler alert - the bad guy, the antagonist, is right there in front of your face, literally.
~ Leigh Whannell
Bumrah's action is a bit awkward, so you don't see his slower balls. He can trick you with pace. He is a lot quicker than he looks.
~ Jofra Archer
On the cover of 'All the Stars' is a red grosgrain ribbon. It's Loos's ribbon. Ageless, fabulous Loos - she tricked the very people who would have cast her aside like an old shoe if they knew the truth.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
~ Alex Wolff
Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.
~ Lene Hau
National security is that old rabbit that's pulled out of the hat every time politicians run out of other tricks to keep you in check.
~ Barkha Dutt
When I graduated from college, I thought I was losing my hair. And I started looking into hair transplants. I was talking to my mom. My mom said, 'You're crazy. You have so much hair.' It was a real lesson in your mind playing tricks on you. You can make your mind think anything is happening.
~ Will Forte
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
~ William Sanderson
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
~ Moran Atias
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
~ Michel Onfray
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
~ Penn Jillette
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
~ Tracy Morgan
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
~ David K. Shipler
People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.
~ Terence Winter
My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.
~ Nick Harkaway
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
~ Madchen Amick
You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.
~ Paula Hawkins
You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.
~ Ben Stokes
There are those moments when you know that you are up against a tricky customer who is not being forthright with the truth, and there is no way you're going to let them off the hook.
~ Emily Maitlis
The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
~ Eric Schlosser