Matt Bomer Quotes

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Tactics are manipulative.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

Advertising is legalized lying.

If you want to convince somebody, make up a quote and attribute it to some renowned authority …. People are incredibly gullible.

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie!” till you can find a rock.

It was difficult to contradict this artist—this seducer.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

I work my angles and things like that.

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.