Quotes About Deception

When you look around, and very close trusted people who would never cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do that and people leave your house and tell completely different stories, you tend not to trust people.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

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

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

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

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.