Quotes About Deception

Truth was only a shifting fog to them, to be burned off by the light of their convoluted reasoning. Followers

Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Them's the vermin: them who take what little we can earn or make with our hands so as to promise it right back to us, expecting us to be thankful at their kind hearts; them who tempt good people to be lazy so they can rule us like they do sheep at a trough; them who took our freedom and our ways. Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. I don't know what the world's coming to.

Few people understood the weapon that was a properly fashioned twist of information.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid ti might be true. Zed

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People would believe any lie, either because they wanted it to be true, or because they feared it was.

Okay, so I lied about my age. Everybody does.

Always listen to the parent who doesn't like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don't find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

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

Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about, said the voice of Maurice. They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!