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Quotes About Deception

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
~ Karl Kraus
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
~ Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
~ Daphne du Maurier
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
~ Joss Whedon
Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.
~ Robin Williams
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.
~ Scott Peterson
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
~ Jean Rostand
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
~ St. Jerome
The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
~ Eugene J. Martin
The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.
~ Winston Churchill
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
~ David Stockman
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
~ Walter J. Phillips
The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.
~ Kelly Reichardt
The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.
~ Laurieann Gibson
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
~ Pablo Picasso
The distortion of the truth bothers me.
~ Michael Jackson
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah
Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
~ William McIlvanney
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
~ Vanna Bonta
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
~ Socrates