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Quotes About Deception

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truthsayers.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
~ George A. Smith
The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.
~ George Ade
It is the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician. If the illusion fails the ballet fails, no matter how well a program note tells the audience that it has succeeded.
~ George Balanchine
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
~ George Bancroft
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
~ George Barrell Cheever
He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
~ George Berkeley
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste
~ George Bernard Shaw
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way
~ George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns
You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns
Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
~ George Byron