While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

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.

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.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

All war is based on deception.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

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.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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.

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.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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.

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.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

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.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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.

All war is deception.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

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.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again 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.

All confrontation is based on deception.

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

Deception is everywhere.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

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.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

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.