I am not what I am. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 1. Cesario to Olivia, in a line that is full or revelation and concealment. Olivia has no clue that Cesario, whom she has fallen in love with, is Viola in disguise.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. – Adolf Hitler
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance, Lord Illingworth, Act 3.
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. – Andrew Bird
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. – Ben Macintyre
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. – Adelbert von Chamisso
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand ‘clash of civilisations’ theory or ‘the West versus the rest’ binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception. – Pankaj Mishra
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud. – Edmund Phelps
The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception. – The Bible Proverbs 14:8
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception… I have deceived my friends – and I had millions of them. – Charles Van Doren
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. – David Novak
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. – Eric Alterman
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
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
The public should begin to understand that there’s nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception. – John Sununu
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. – Knute Rockne
