Quotes About Deception

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive.

The curious crime, the fineFelicity and flower of wickedness.

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.

Beware o' Bonie Ann (Song) YE gallants bright, I rede you right, Beware o' bonie Ann; Her comely face sae fu' o' grace, Your heart she will trepan: Her een sae bright, like stars by night,   5 Her skin sae like the swan; Sae jimply lac'd her genty waist, That sweetly ye might span.

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

All our geese are swans.

The devil is the author of confusion.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.