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Quotes About Deception

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
~ Allen Ginsberg
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
~ Robertson Davies
In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
~ Peter Kreeft
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
~ Simon Van Booy
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
~ Georges Bataille
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
~ Edgar Degas
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
~ Anais Nin
With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.
~ Mike Rinder
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.
~ Jacques Cazotte
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
~ Richard B. Garnett
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.
~ Mariel Hemingway
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
~ Dante Alighieri
Victory cannot tolerate truth.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
~ Hosea Ballou
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
~ Victor Hugo
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth
~ Bertrand Russell
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
~ John Dryden
It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.
~ Rick Yancey
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
~ Augustus William Hare