Quotes About Deception

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Truth never was indebted to a lie

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

Conquer a liar with truth.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.