Quotes About Deception

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

I could not have known Colin Campbell would turn out to be the debased, cruel monster he turned out to be.

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

I cheated on my wife for years. Had children with different mothers.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

What words openly declare can be tested against empirical evidence, but what words insinuate can bypass that safeguard. Even an innocent-sounding phrase like "income distribution," endlessly repeated, can suggest a process in which income exists somehow and is then distributed, as one might distribute food at a dinner table or gifts at Christmas.

He tried to live before her in armor. He showed off before her. Perhaps, he thought, if he were splendid enough, she would not see the ugly disorder and meanness of the world he dwelt in.

For it is so with time and memory: the seed of our deepest feeling is buried under the rush of a momentary and violent one, there is in all feeling a quality of deception and evasion, and the meanings of the spirit become evident only in the light of a dispassionate distance

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.

he smelled like somebody trying to smell like somebody else.

trust is easy to throw away and hard to regain.

Yes, it's easy to lie with statistics—but it's even easier to lie without them.*

Van Meegeren admitted painting not only the work that had been found in Nazi hands, but Christ at Emmaus and several other supposed Vermeers.

We were handing out little key bumps of cocaine, turning our own supporters into addicts, and then telling ourselves there wasn't a problem. They just need another bump to stay level. And another. And another.

Donald Trump was the snake. Everyone knew he was the snake. He told us he was the snake. Yet when the snake offered his spoiled fruit, these otherwise intelligent people took from the tree and ate it.