Quotes About Deception

Bulshytt: Speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.

he had arrived at the conclusion that political stability anywhere was an illusion that only a simpleton would believe in. That

Rather than go see a real small town for free, he had paid money to see a pretend one, and rather than see it with the naked eye, he was watching it on television.

The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed to call into question one's own ability to turn lead into gold. (Enoch in Boston, 1713)

He's rich, Jack muttered to Eliza, or connected with rich persons. Yes—the clothes, the coins ... All fakeable. How do you know him to be rich, then? In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. (Jack Shaftoe and Eliza)

The reversion of Windows to a CLI when it was in distress proved to Mac partisans that Windows was nothing more than a cheap facade, like a garish afghan flung over a rotted-out sofa.

IT HAD BEEN with mixed feelings that Olivia Halifax-Lin had learned that Abdallah Jones had absconded from Mindanao and turned up in Xiamen. For Olivia had just devoted the better part of a year, and MI6 had spent half a million quid, on setting her up with a false Chinese identity so that she could work under deep cover within the borders of the Middle Kingdom. And she really hated Abdallah Jones a lot. But hunting Islamic bombers was not supposed to be her job

Though some efforts had been made to camouflage their essential nature, they were really just guns for shooting humans, albeit humans strapped into comfortable, pressurized bullets.

Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.

Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the "truth.

Because unity is the truth. Separatism is the illusion.

Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal.

You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.

Oh boy, now it looked like a duck

I was lying to this person; that meant we really knew each other.

There are times, believe you me, when to lie would be a sin and to tell the truth would be a disaster.

It's the art of letting people deceive themselves without actually telling them lies.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.

Leonardo da Vinci would be in full agreement: "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.

Samuel L. Lewis] The hypocrisy of perfumed words only adds to the criminality of unwise acts.

Well, he said, opening the door to his car, all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it. [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. And then you die.

He spread out in his chair like a melting shard of Swiss cheese and informed us: "The only lies I'll ever tell are: 'I won't come in your mouth' and 'I'll just rub it around your ass.'" It wasn't a pretty visual.

The great lie of modern dating is that in order to sleep with a woman, a man must pretend initially as if he doesn't want to.

Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.