Quotes About Deception

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought.

Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others

A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true.

A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit.

Beware of impostors taking sweet words.

Beware of impostors talking or preaching with sweet words.

Happiness is just an illusion filled with sadness and confusion

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Politicians talking about honesty is like prostitutes talking about virginity

The activists or protesters who have many backers are cheaters.

There is most likely to be corruption even in the list of corrupt people or places prepared by any agency.

Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool.

Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

Her arms rippled with muscles. Harriet was impressed. Apparently playing the harp only looked delicate.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Ideology offers human beings the illusion of dignity and morals while making it easier to part with them.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

One is inclined to add only one emollient sentence: that whoever you are and whatever you have done, you will be reversed if you reach old age, for then you will look like a hard old walnut or like some beatified infant of boundless cynicism – the London ideas of innocence. You will look so sweet that you will be able to get away with anything.