Sebastian Franck Quotes

The world wants to be deceived.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

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

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

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.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Deception is everywhere.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

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