Quotes About Deception

If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don't continue to do it. But if you don't call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous.

Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie.

The controllists sometimes get angry when critics suggest that "state led" is a bit of a fabrication.

Discrediting the messenger as a misfit to discredit the message is an old ploy when it comes to whistle-blowing, and it often works. The

liars need to have good memories

it was a case of making an impressionable, mentally ill woman believe that she was Anastasia Romanov. Their deception began with Anna Anderson's supposed suicide attempt in a Berlin canal, and her amazing story was born." "Anna Anderson was a decoy?" "Pure and simple. To deflect the world from the truth.

It is an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Don't fear the truth, it isn't hard. Don't embrace falsehood, it is hard.

Even those who love falsity will swear that they hate falsity. Because they believe falsity is the truth. So love the truth.

Falsity feels great until you meet the truth.

Falsity is the most powerful thing on earth. Truth is the most valuable thing in the world.

Lies are easy to find, avoid them. The truth is harder to find, seek it.

The hardness of truth is nothing compared to hardness as a result of falsehood.

The most dangerous thing is, in believing falsity is truth, treating it as such.

The people's inclination to falsity best defines the human problem.

The problem is that we tend to forget that lies are always presented as the truth, not that people hate the truth.

The truth is the most underrated thing on earth, falsity the most overrated. Albeit indirectly.

The world suffers a lot because of false truths.

There is nothing as despicable as a lie that has reached the apex therein as to be universally viewed as the truth.

Unless we bring falsehood to rest, we will never rest.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.