Quotes About Deception

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

The devil isn't a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he's had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.