Deception Quotes

Ignorance is a bliss. One does not simply believe everything they see on the Internet. If an individual has full swag control and mastery of the deception of swag, one could have easily seen through this 'troll'. This is why learning the basic 4 swag principles and mastering them is extremely necessary. Basically, one must AT least master the 4 elements of swag in order to see through deception and perceive where the swag count energy is being emitted from. this state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking , where it is absent, discussion is adapted to become worse than useless. My title as 'Man of Swag' can never be replaced. I am Swag

~ Batuhan Ibal

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

~ Nadine Gordimer

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.

~ R. Alan Woods

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

~ Alfred Tennyson

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

~ L. Frank Baum

And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

~ William Shakespeare

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

~ Scott Lynch

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

~ Dave Eggers

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.

~ Dave Cullen

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.

~ Toni Morrison

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

~ Michael Connelly

Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks - how steady her gaze, how erect her posture. In the picture her eyes will be slightly closed, and there will be a shadow on her neck. The shawl will be draped around her shoulders, and her hands will rest in her lap. In this deceptive photograph, she will look a young woman who is not at all disturbed or embarrassed, but instead appears to be rather serious. And she wonders if, in its ability to deceive, photography is not unlike the sea, which may offer a benign surface to the observe even as it conceals depths and current below.

~ Anita Shreve

I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything.

~ G.k. Chesterton

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

~ Edwin Robinson

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

~ Mark R. Levin

Love is beautiful,A beautiful deception.One falls in itTo deceive the other

~ Amit Abraham

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.

~ Anastasia Hollings

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

~ Shane Warne

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

~ Sean Hannity

The secret lies of manipulative folks, however hidden and cunningly twisted shall eventually come out. Never trust manipulative politically motivated, sly liars while they pretend to be true friends with noble and just cause. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

~ Angelica Hopes

Why croak with dishonesty when your target subject discovers, listens, and witnesses beyond the veil of your duplicity?Your proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, gossips, polemics, planted intrigues, lies, calumny, misjudgement, and all other forms of smear campaign, may deceive gullible hearts but you cannot destroy the unparalleled truth which is in the hands of your target victim. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

~ Angelica Hopes

Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.

~ Donna Lynn Hess

Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

~ David Ignatius

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

~ Ira Levin

He smiles, even attractive, but appearances are unreliable depictions of character.

~ Emily R. King

Legal action is but warfare disguised.

~ Mike Klepper

The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines

~ Sunday Adelaja

In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique. No matter whether it was true or not -- for (Hitler) meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that. Imagine the worst possible about your enemies and then swear that you knew it, you had seed it, it was God's truth and you were ready to stake your life upon it -- shout this, bellow this, over and over, day after day, night after night...when ten million join in it becomes history.

~ Upton Sinclair

Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Confronting a liar makes a better liar.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

~ Mao Zedong

See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.

~ William Shakespeare

Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

~ Kiese Laymon