Quotes About Deception

Language is best used where it is most efficiently abused.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

This isn't a baguette, it's shit.

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Round numbers are always false.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The difference between truth and fiction is that the latter must always be credible in order to work.

One, by his own confession to me, that can put on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends. But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation.