Quotes About Deception

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Every man is a hypocrite

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Most of what is said by candidates on the right is half-baked truths and fabrications coated in 'patriotism or family values.'

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.

I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

The devil always has the better tunes!

When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.

Realness is something in such short supply; you can't believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then during the commercials, they are lying to you there also. You can't believe anything, but when you go see a drag show, something real is happening on stage.