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Quotes About Deception

The music is not the truth.
~ Mister Lies
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
~ Mitt Romney
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
~ Nalini Singh
Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
~ Norman Mailer
...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
~ Norman Mailer
Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.
~ P. C. Cast
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
~ Paul Fussell
Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.
~ Paul Virilio
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
~ Penn Jillette
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
~ Penn Jillette
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.
~ Phyllis Bottome
In quarreling, the truth is always lost.
~ Publilius Syrus
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
~ Orson Scott Card
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
~ Orson Scott Card
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
~ R. D. Laing
The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
~ Rachel Hartman
There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.
~ Richard Avedon
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
~ Richard B. Garnett
VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)
~ Richard Donner
These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
~ Richard Perle
To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.
~ Richard Wilbur