Deception Quotes

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

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

We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.

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

Don't get me wrong - I don't want to be mean to the scammers. There are lots of people online who do that. I'm content merely having fun inventing, and I figure any time they're spending with me is time in which they're not scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

FLATTERY is nothing, but false friendship, fawning hypocrisy, dishonest civility, base merchandise of words…

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.