Quotes About Deception

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.