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Quotes About Deception

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Mugged by my own mother.
~ Rick Riordan
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
~ Sophocles
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
~ William Shakespeare
Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
~ William Shakespeare
My dear, treacherous mother, " he breathed. "What have you done?
~ Grace Draven, Eidolon
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
~ William Shakespeare
The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen
The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.
~ Mira Grant, Deadline
There's no thief like a bad movie.
~ Sam Ewing
Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
~ Jessica Alba
The more you look, the less you see.
~ J. Daniel Atlas now you see me
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.
~ Hopsin
If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.
~ Bootsy Collins
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
~ Noel Gallagher
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
~ Lady Gaga
All rock music is fake news.
~ John Flansburgh
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
~ Franz Kafka
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.
~ Bernard Madoff
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
~ Francis Bacon
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
~ James Russell Lowell
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
~ Martin Luther