Quotes About Deception

Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.

We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.

North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

Truth is an illusory notion.

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?

The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.