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

Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.

Donna A. Favors

War is based on deception.

Sun Tzu

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Hannah Moore

Did Doubleday contact Frey? If they did ask him if there was anything there and he lied to them, then [his deception] is even worse.

Morgan Entrekin

We've seen a decade of deception by Merck.

Mark Lanier

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Leo Rosten

The truth is there is no $1 billion. This amendment is about deception.

Rep. Shelley Vana

It was what Mr Lay was saying, what the company was saying. I was trying to keep up the deception as well.

Andrew Fastow

A pattern of deception and denial, and it is continuing to this day.

Patrick Eddington

It's time to wake up from the lies. It's time to wake up from the deception.

Dan Webster

A planner, a schemer, and one capable of deception and dangerous results on his own.

Jonathan Shapiro

It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.

Terry Mcmillan

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Robert Motherwell

It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there.

Karen Peters

Deception of voters has become an accepted tactic.

Washington Post

The contract was executed and signed in the dark, and it's just been one deception after another.

Eugene Korn