One crime has to be concealed by another.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

The worst crime is faking it.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.