Deception Quotes

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth" "You're still, you're still a traitor" "The television business is a cruel and shallow money trench a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason" "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend" "He who has not early sown in his mind the seeds of truth will hear many things that will seem true but are false and will thereby incur grave damage." "The smiler with the knife under the cloak" "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines" "When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you limit reality." "I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie" "He who wishes to deceive will never fail to find willing dupes." "It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." "He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest " "We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage" "If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." "We are closest to people when we promise them something that can never be delivered" "All that glisters is not gold" "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison"