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Quotes About Deception

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
~ Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl
Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.
~ Jerry Hall
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.
~ R. D. Laing
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
~ Isaac Asimov
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.
~ Isabella Stewart Gardner
Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
~ Nikki Sixx
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
~ Georges Braque
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
~ A.W. Tozer
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
~ Grace Slick
If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.
~ Mike Caro
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.
~ Eugene Burger
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
~ Anne Perry, Tathea
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
~ Eric Hoffer
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
~ Ingmar Bergman
You can't handle the truth!
~ Jack Nicholson
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
~ Ivan Panin
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
~ Milan Kundera
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
~ Aneurin Bevan