Quotes About Deception

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

In jest, there is truth.

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.