Quotes About Deception

We think, "Hey. The Bible is holy, so quoting it must make my choices correct." But someone else tried that tactic before. Yeah. His name was Satan.

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another.

You can't pray a lie.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

lying to them is bad! I am a real person!

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.