Quotes About Deception

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

Specifically for 'Faults,' the three films I mention most as inspiration are 'Dogtooth,' 'Fargo' and 'Punch-Drunk Love.'

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.