A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

Al Goldstein
Al Goldstein

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.

Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird

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 Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!

Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre

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.

Bernard Katz
Bernard Katz

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.

Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren

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