Quotes About Deception

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

You can't cheat an honest man.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.