Quotes About Deception

Names are not always what they seem.

First get the facts, you can distort them later

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction

Âdem, yaln?zca bir insand?. Bu her ÅŸeyi aç?kl?yor. Elmay?, yemek için deÄŸil, yasak olduÄŸu için istemiÅŸti. As?l hata, y?lan? yasaklamam?? olmakt?. Çünkü o zaman onu yemek isteyecekti.

You can't pray a lie Huck Finn

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Satan was accustomed to say that our race lived a life of continuous and uninterrupted self-deception. It duped itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a sham. Of the score of fine qualities which it imagined it had and was vain of, it really possessed hardly one. It regarded itself as gold, and was only brass.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.