Deception Quotations

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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

Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

When the judge looked at the evidence and saw how blatant the stem cell opponents were in stealing the codes and information from our Web site, he said that it was an obvious and intentional attempt to confuse the public. They're willing to use every tool of deception and disinformation to accomplish their goals.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.

I don't know who he meant. I clearly wouldn't think that Todd Walker would have any reason to tell you I've never not told him the truth. Whether I'm right or wrong, I've spent 27 years of my life telling players what I felt was the truth at that time. My decisions don't always work out, but they're never done with any deception toward the player.

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want to take away from that, we just wanted to kind of clean it up a bit and keep the deception there. The one thing he really helped me with is staying with what felt natural to me, what felt right to me.

He had good deception tonight. The ball was going in there pretty good, he made some pitches. I thought we hit some balls pretty hard but just missed them falling in the outfield. But he pitched good enough and mixed it up good enough to beat us.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

He's attached to the strike zone. His stuff stays in the zone. It's fun to watch, because he gets the defense involved. With him, he has deception to his delivery.

I find this more troubling than deception in the political campaigns. The level of misunderstanding and the consequences of misunderstanding can be much more dramatic. If we don't hold the right people accountable and the right processes accountable, we'll risk having another catastrophe without real preparedness, and more people will die needlessly.

There is evidence that some of these companies are perpetrating large-scale deception upon consumers by deploying buzz marketers who fail to disclose that they have been enlisted to promote products.

He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

It is apparent that Toyobo was duped by Second Chance. We were shocked by the level of Second Chance's deception when their behavior was finally uncovered because of documents that surfaced in litigation and through investigation.

It is nothing short of deception and lies to portray this deal as strengthening the union (between Northern Ireland and Britain), ... complete and total sellout of our province.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Will unionist demands for open, verifiable, photographed and witnessed decommissioning be adhered to or not? ... The day for deception is over. The day for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth has come.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

When I think of Kevin, I think of deception. He?s gangly. You don?t expect him to do some of the things he does.

That was a deception of the voters, ... Voters were promised widening of 99 and improved interchanges on 99, 41 and 180. And what they got, primarily, was 168.

There is a lot of deception in his delivery. He throws a nice breaking ball and fastball, and he locates well.

We decided to put the ball in Patrick's hands a little more. He's more experienced. He's a veteran player. He'll beat you with his savvy and deception with his ball handling.

We've been inundated with complaints. This company is engaged in the worst kind of consumer fraud, preying on people's fears of rising natural gas prices and resorting to deception in order to boost sales.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

The path to the truth is found in the spaces between the lies.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

We want the whole list on the table, and completely, before the election, ... Anything else would be enormous election deception.

The critical issue should be how to strengthen the legal base of free market capitalism: the property rights of shareholders and other owners of capital, ... Fraud and deception are thefts of property.

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

When all else fails, tell the truth.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

This report exposes one of the biggest con jobs in recent history. This long-running, secretive campaign funded by some of the country's wealthiest families has relied on deception to bamboozle the public not only about who must pay the estate tax, but about how repealing it will affect the country.