Quotes About Deception

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.