Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Deception/lying.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Edward George BulwerLytton
The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu
And after all, what is a lie?
Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.
Clare Boothe Luce
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.
Will Rogers, November 13, 1932
The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
Leonardo DaVinci, note book
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
Robert C. Edwards
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius Erasmus
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
