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

All war is based on deception.

All war is 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.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Profit is sweet even if it comes from deception.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

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.

From secrecy and deception in high places come home America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation come home America.

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.

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

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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.

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