Best lying & deception Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.”

Way Writing Littles Lying Bits Novel Deception Novel Writing

“Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.”

“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”

Men Should Art Facts Dream Lying Interest Demand Distance Deception Refuge Canvas Only Love Unattractive Foreground Far Distance

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.”

Eye Lying Ears Deception Deceit

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Art lies because it's social.”

Art Lying Social Deception

Book:The book of disquiet: a selection

Source: The book of disquiet: a selection

“The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.”

Ifs Able Lying Air Bird Breathe Deception

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”

Light Lying Doors Deception Mma

Author:Walel Watson

“What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”

Light Lying Fighting Sides Doors Deception I've Learned Mma Camps Cages

Author:Walel Watson

“When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.”

Lying Loses Ability Deception Liars Deceived

Book:Velocity: A Novel

Source: Velocity: A Novel

“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.”

People Hard Shows Reality Lying Roles Fashion Paper Photography News Photograph Deception Propaganda Glamorous

Author:Martin Parr

“I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.”

Lying Hate Imagination Concerned I Hate Deception

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.”

Mean Facts Reality Lying Evidence Paint Deception Range Subtle Crucial Polite Spinning Mislead Bending Omission Yarn Spinner

Book:unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

Source: unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”

Thinking Lying Sound Stranger Deception Telephones Amazement

Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.”

Giving Mind Long Doe Lying Giving Up Illusion Deception Assumption Collapse Layers Idle Restless

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

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