Quotes About Deception

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

jokes are used to hide the truth!

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.