Quotes About Deception

I'm tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It's all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn't to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It's not supposed to be that way!

THERE IS NO such thing as magic. That was merely the word people used to explain something so cleverly done that there was no ready explanation for it, and the simplest technique employed by its practitioners was to distract the audience with one moving and obvious hand (usually in a white glove) while the other was doing something else.

There was reality, and then there was perception, and rarely the two shall meet.

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

This wasn't a mere can of worms. It was a can of poisonous snakes that Ryan had spilled over Murray's desk.

I know what you're doing," the wolf said. "This is advanced interrogation techniques, right? First you destroy my self-esteem and sense of individuality, then you force me to tell you where the pack hides out, so your woodcutter pals can come and slaughter us. Well, you're wasting your breath. I won't talk. I won't talk. Got that?

Even more truly is it said: when you don't know spit, bullshit.

We don't ask that question. Why not? If I tell you the truth, you would not believe me. If I lie, you would believe me.

No one knows what love is, he told me. If someone says they do, they're full of shit.

On reflection, though, it struck her as dishonest, like serving people ice cream on their first night at the fat farm. Hey, have some more hot fudge! You're gonna love it here at Camp Lose-a-Lot!

Detective stories are right about one thing, though: once you've committed a crime, nothing is simple. The whole world bends to your exposure. Before you know it, you're on the eleven o'clock news, wearing a jacket on your head.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.

But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It's so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could've come up with it.

You can hook a rainbow to a goofy vision -Jellybean is doing that- but you can't hook a rainbow to a lie

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one's motive is sufficiently inscrutable.

How is a juggler you can't hear or see or smell or touch different to no juggler at all?

Világéletedben olyan közel éltél az igazsághoz, hogy tartósan elhomályosította a látótered, és ha valami történetesen fókuszba pöcköli, már a groteszkség csapdájába esik.