Quotes About Deception

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

The truth is for suckers, Johnny Boy!

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.