Quotes About Deception

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

People don't want to know the truth.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.