Quotes About Deception

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Images split the truth in fractions.

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.