Quotes About Deception

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.

In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving. He's the fattest guy - how can anyone believe that?

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

I believe the earth is stationary, but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years. I just believed everything was a lie - all the wars, that there was no government, that corporations ran the world, that everything was a fraud - that everyone lied about everything.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

I had a gentleman steal or 'misplace' - I guess I should say 'allegedly' - a lot of money from me. It didn't make any sense when it was happening, because I just didn't understand why I didn't have any money. I was a perfect mark because I had all of this shame and insecurity about money.