Quotes About Deception

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.