Deception Quotes

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

Leo Rosten

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman

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.

Elias Canetti

The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.

Saul Bellow

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

War is based on deception.

Sun - Tzu

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

Oscar Wilde