Deception Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Deception Quotes from famous persons: Tyra Banks, Serge Schmemann, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Elon Musk, Michael Musto. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Deception Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master

I just think, as a model, it’s taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.
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Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They’re like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my ’96 Jeep Cherokee.
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Anything that a batsman cannot pick from the wrist is deception.
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We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.
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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.
Michael Musto
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The ‘free market‘ is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers
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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.
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The consequences of President Johnson‘s campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
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People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That’s probably most clearly seen in deception.
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Knowledge of God‘s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
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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.
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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception… I have deceived my friends – and I had millions of them.
Charles Van Doren
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Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That’s the way I do it, anyway.
Joseph O’Neill
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When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
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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.
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All warfare is based on deception.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sissela Bok
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From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
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Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, ‘Liespotting,’ no one wants to meet me in person anymore – no, no, no, no, no. They say, ‘It’s okay. We’ll email you.’ I can’t even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband‘s like, ‘Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?’
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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.
John Wanamaker
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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.
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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They’re all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They’re tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.
Margaret Keane
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Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception.
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All confrontation is based on deception.
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I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
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People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody‘s telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth – or some version of it.
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One of my favourite books about hackers is ‘Masters of Deception’ about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn’t come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Those elements that makeCatfish‘ so interesting to watch, elements of deception and mystery, make any movie or any piece of content exciting to watch. It makes characters complex and interesting.
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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.
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Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we’re on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.
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When I got back from shooting ‘Deception,’ I was under contract with NBC, so I can’t really do anything.
Wes Brown
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy
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The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
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Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.
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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.
Raul Grijalva
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Unfortunately, with addiction, there’s manipulation and deception.
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Tournament play demands patience to survive and win. Winning at cash games demands a whole other level of thought and deception. You need to reach into your bag of tricks and run the occasional big bluff to be a consistent cash game winner.
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I’ll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, ‘Believe me,’ don’t. Pleading ‘believe me’ or ‘trust me‘ – insisting to people that you are telling the truth – is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren’t.
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By the time we enter this work world and we’re breadwinners, we enter a world that’s just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers – a deception epidemic.
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I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false frontagain 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.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze – springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.
Mary Daly
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Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
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The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, ‘How dare you…’ it’s a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
Martin L. Gross
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I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you’re not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that’s a kind of serious moral issue.
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Men still have to be governed by deception.
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It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!
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Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.
Maximillian Degenerez
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The joy of ‘The X-files’ is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never ‘killed off‘ but held a fake funeral in ‘Jump the Shark‘ to get the heat off of us.
Dean Haglund
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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.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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Art is a deception that creates real emotions – a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Marco Tempest
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America is smarter than the politicians. America is demanding a change and not more of the same cronyism, not more of the same deception, corruption, and business. Washington, D.C., needs to be shaken up.
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson’s biggest deception yet – worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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As was the case in ‘Darth Plagueis’ – even going back as far asCloak of Deception’ – I was well aware that I was writing what used to be called ‘men’s adventurefiction.
James Luceno
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grandclash of civilisations’ theory or ‘the West versus the restbinary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I’ll have none of that.
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Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.