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Quotes About Deception

Sometimes people don't want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.
~ Chelsea M. Cameron
We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.
~ Sonya Hartnett, Surrender
So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth
~ Ralph Ellison
Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.
~ Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL
~ Nelson M. Lubao
What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
~ Ira Levin, This Perfect Day
And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...
~ Deyth Banger, ((...)...)...
Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?
~ Kasie West, Split Second
The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.
~ Embee, Tess Embers
The worst crime is faking it
~ Kurt Cobain
A misleading impression not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
~ Sir Robert Armstrong
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
~ German proverb
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.
~ J. F. Stone
Prose lies its way to the truth
~ Bert McCoy
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~ Wole Soyinka
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
~ James Hall
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.
~ Joyce Giraud
All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.
~ Auliq Ice
Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.
~ DaShanne Stokes
Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.
~ Auliq Ice
The truth is that no one is truthful these days!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.
~ DaShanne Stokes
A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
~ Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow