Quotes About Deception

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.

Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.

Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?

don't blame you for not being able to believe it, but I do blame you for fancying such a child would try to deceive you. Why should she? Depend upon it, she told you all she knew. Until you had found a better way of accounting for it all, you might at least have been more sparing of your judgment.

What it is, I can not tell; I only know it is not that which the young fool calls it, still less that which the old sinner thinks it.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!"...

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:   WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.