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Quotes About Deception

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
~ Charles Peguy
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
~ Terry Goodkind
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
~ Oscar Wilde
I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
~ Dan Rather
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
~ Billy Joel
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
~ Alexander Pope
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
~ Croft M. Pentz
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
~ James Russell Lowell
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
~ James Gibbons
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
~ Anais Nin
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
~ George Berkeley
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
~ Anthony Trollope
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
~ Thomas Paine
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
~ George Burns
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
~ Charles Edward Montague
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
~ Henry Fielding
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
~ Billy Graham
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
~ Paul Valery
Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?
~ Patrick Sky