Deception/lying Quotes

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

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Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.

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Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

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Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Finley Peter Dunne

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal De Richelieu

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Demosthenes

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Mailer

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost