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Quotes About Deception

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
~ J. G. Holland
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
~ Dorothy Nevill
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
~ Mark Twain
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
~ C. S. Lewis
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
~ George Herbert
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
~ Sarah Dessen
I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
~ Terry Gross
I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.
~ Sonya Sones
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
~ Amber Benson
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.
~ Anuj
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
~ Aphra Behn
The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.
~ Arthur Japin
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
~ Ayumi Hamasaki
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Lying - remembering beauty in truth.
~ Beatrice Sparks
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
~ bell hooks