Quotes About Deception

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Deliverance from believing lies must come from believing truth.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.