Quotes About Deception

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

It is clear that Michael Cohen was not truthful with the House Intelligence Committee, which is all the more reason that we never should have ended our investigation.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

People believe what they want to believe.

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

The world wants to be deceived.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.