Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles
MoneySweetProfitDeceptionEven
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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I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.
Tyra Banks
MeThinkIllusionDeceptionMaster
Deception is everywhere.
James Sanborn
DeceptionEverywhere
World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
David Ignatius
WarWorldDeceptionManipulation
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.
Xun Kuang
ManAnimalBelieveThinkDeception
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
Edmund Phelps
DeceptionFraudWithoutProtection
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sissela Bok
DeceptionDeceiveSecrecyMeant
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.
Jordan Peterson
YourselfStartYouDeceptionLies
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Marina Tsvetaeva
DeceptionLowUsHostThanTruths
As was the case in 'Darth Plagueis' - even going back as far as 'Cloak of Deception' - I was well aware that I was writing what used to be called 'men's adventure' fiction.
James Luceno
MenAdventureWritingBackDeception
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
Charles Van Doren
FriendsDeceptionInvolvedDeceived
All warfare is based on deception.
Unknown
WarDeceptionWarfareBased
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
BoringNothingDeceptionUpKeep
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.
Robin Marantz Henig
WordsLanguageMeaningDeception
There's a degree of deception in silence.
Don Lemon
SilenceDeceptionDegree
Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
Martin L. Gross
ArtDeceptionPoliticiansMasters
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.
Greg Gutfeld
GreatCultureEvilBadDeception
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner
PeopleMatterDeceptionAlways
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer
LiveAgeInnocenceNowDeception
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
John Bevere
HeartOffendedDeceptionGround
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.
Ron Livingston
GoodTruthPeopleKnowDeception
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy
MusicPeopleDeceptionSeekCome
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
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