Quotes About Deception

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.