Quotes About Deception

I think that's kind of my forte is that I tell people beforehand that I'm going to steal from them. And a lot of people think that that makes them safe, and hopefully I wake them up a little bit.

Everybody in the league has someone up in the box, or guys on the sidelines trying to steal calls. It's just like baseball. If you've got guys who can do, you do it.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

You're stealing people's secrets. You convince them to give up their life and imagine the life you've created is real or more interesting. If it's a good play, they'll cry or think private thoughts about their lives or laugh.

If the playing field is not level, if there's sign stealing going on and we're not participating ourselves, that really puts you at a great disadvantage.

Even when I go to the gym I sit in the steam room for an hour, come back really red-faced and pretend I've been for a run, so there's no need to worry.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Facts and truth go hand in hand, propaganda just makes people angry without knowing the truth. Propaganda is like blowing smoke in the face, it pisses you off, but then it's gone, facts linger and sooner or later you'll have to face them.

Politicians tell you what you want to hear, what fools you all are for believing the lies and becoming such sheep.

By what right did we lure children to their deaths, caught by a glint of light on metal, a trumpery banner?

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief.

A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate…. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.