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

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

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

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

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

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.

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

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

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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

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

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

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

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

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

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

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

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

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

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.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

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

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

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.

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

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

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.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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

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.

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

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

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

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?

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

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.

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

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.