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Quotes tagged ‘Deception’
Cal: Have you ever had any specialized deception training? Ria: I've dated a lot of men.
Latrell Spencer: Oh, the deception. The betrayal. Man, you deceived me. Marcus Copeland: Look, man. Latrell Spencer: Negro, please. Didn’t anyone tell you that this was an all-white party, huh? Someone get this jigaboo away from me.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Andrew McElfresh, Xavier Cook, Michael Anthony Snowden, Latrell Spencer, Terry Crews, imdb.com
Sometimes a lie isn’t wrong if it’s for the good of someone that you love.
— Oscar Balderrama, Wendy Mericle, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com
Theatricality and deception, powerful agents to the uninitiated, but we are initiated aren’t we, Bruce?
— Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bane, Tom Hardy, imdb.com
And then he did the same thing to the other Whos' houses, leaving crumbs much too small for the other Whos' mouses.
— Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle, Narrator / The Grinch (voice), Boris Karloff, imdb.com
All their windows were dark. No one knew he was there. All the Whos were all dreaming sweet dreams without care...when he came to the first little house on the square.
— Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle, Narrator / The Grinch (voice), Boris Karloff, imdb.com
Narrator: Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch, but if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch. He got stuck only once for a minute or two, then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue where the little Who stockings were hung all in a row. Grinch: These stockings... Narrator:…
— Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle, Narrator / The Grinch (voice), Boris Karloff, imdb.com
Then he slunk to the ice box. He took the Whos' feast, he took the who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.
— Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle, Narrator / The Grinch (voice), Boris Karloff, imdb.com
Grinch: I know just what to do! Narrator: ...the Grinch laughed in his throat. Grinch: I'll make a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat. Narrator: And he chuckled and clucked... Grinch: What a great Grinchy trick. With this coat and this hat, I'll look just like Saint Nick!
— Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle, Narrator / The Grinch (voice), Boris Karloff, imdb.com
One’s eyes can be deceived. We see what we believe, not the other way around.
— Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, V.M. Vargas, David Thewlis, imdb.com
Things aren’t always what they seem.
Wilma Flintstone: [after the wives realize the guys' deception] State of shock, huh? Fred Flintstone: Wilma, no, no, not in the head! [gets clobbered] Wilma Flintstone: Try that while you're 'poor, sick' at home! Betty Rubble: [mumbles something hard to understand, but definitely angry] Barney Rubbl…
Fred Flintstone: [trying to fool their wives it wasn't them in the bowling alley] Read me another bedtime story, would you, Barney pal? Barney Rubble: Sure, which one? 'Uncle Wiggly' or 'I Was a Teenage Brontosaurus'?
She was practiced at the art of deception.
Asset entanglement, evasion techniques, deception. These are all words they use in training. They make it... sound so clinical. But... it's not. It's... it's messy and it's dangerous.
— Matt Corman, Chris Ord, Annie Walker, Piper Perabo, imdb.com
Forever unchanging. My sins made manifest only here. At times I've deceived myself into thinking I'm other than this. Don't we all want to paint ourselves into something better than we are? But that... is truly who I am, Angelique.
Ask a question, you get an answer. That doesn’t necessarily get you the truth.
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations.
Deliberately manipulative liars can also reveal their lie more overtly by reacting aggressively or defensively to their victims when called out for their lies.