It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base.
The truth can be made up if you know how.
These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
1st Baron Macaulay
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
Lies are weapons of mass destruction.
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
