One crime has to be concealed by another.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

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

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

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.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

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.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!

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

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

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

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.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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

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.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

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.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

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.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

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.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

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.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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.

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.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

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

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

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.