Quotes About Deception

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

There's no truth anymore.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.