Quotes About Deception

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.