Deceptive Speech Quotes

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Evil counsel travels fast.

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Expect hogs to eat a lot more in the presence of a lot of hog wash.

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

A politician really gets into trouble when he starts to believe his own rhetoric.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.