Quotes About Deception

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Now I've got near the top, I can see the games that people play. I thought everyone wanted to fight the best, and earn title shots, but it's not like that.

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they were all making more money than they knew what to do with then and more money than Donald Trump has ever seen in his life.

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.

If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.

I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are all sorts of ways in which they can easily cheat numbers.

The DMK is like a chameleon. There is no doubt about that.

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.