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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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The only perfect lie is the one no one doubts.
Author:
Hugh Laurie
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Intelligence is like a double-edged sword; it can both guide and deceive.
Author:
Sophia Park
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What lie will you tell in order to hide the truth?
Author:
Sasha Mason
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Let your actions speak louder than your words, for actions build trust while words alone can easily deceive.
Author:
Aliyah Walker
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Author:
Xun Zi
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Author:
Charles Warner
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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.
Author:
John Wanamaker
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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All war is based on deception.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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All war is deception.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Author:
Marina Tsvetaeva
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Author:
Sophocles
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I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
Author:
Major Owens
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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.
Author:
Michael Musto
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
Author:
Edward Lucas
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Men still have to be governed by deception.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Koch
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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.
Author:
Bernard Katz
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Author:
Lauryn Hill
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Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
Author:
Martin Gross
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We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
Author:
Charles Doren
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Author:
Claude Debussy
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Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Author:
Elias Canetti
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Author:
Sissela Bok
