Quotes About Deception

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.