Top 45 Lying Deception Quotes

#1. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

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#2. 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.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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#3. Who do you think is lying to us?" Shevek demanded.
Placid, Bedap met his gaze. "Who, brother? Who but ourselves?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#4. The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

John Ruskin

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#5. Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Steve Maraboli

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#6. Art lies because it's social.

Fernando Pessoa

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#7. It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

Chris Hedges

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#8. I believe in my mask
The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance
And my destiny

Sam Shepard

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#9. True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#10. Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

Mark Rowlands

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#11. How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me.

Zoe Marriott

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#12. Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

Gary Hopkins

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#13. The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#14. His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Dave Eggers

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#15. Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#16. History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#17. An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#18. I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

George Washington

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#19. Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

Charles Grandison Finney

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#20. 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.

Kim Chernin

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#21. Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.

Sextus Empiricus

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#22. As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.

Dean Koontz

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#23. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Bonnie Eaker Weil

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#24. Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

Ellen P. Lacter

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#25. The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.

Sam Harris

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#26. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Nenia Campbell

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#27. Confronting a liar makes a better liar.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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#28. He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

Donna Lynn Hope

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#29. The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

R.C. Sproul

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#30. It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Marcel Proust

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#31. Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Jennifer Chiaverini

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#32. The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

Brennan Manning

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#33. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

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#34. If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#35. 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.

Katha Pollitt

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#36. Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil.

Terry Goodkind

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#37. You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

Nenia Campbell

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#38. I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

H.G.Wells

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#39. The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#40. I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

Cassandra Clare

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#41. Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

Walel Watson

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#42. To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#43. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

Christopher Hampton

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#44. 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.

Samuel Johnson

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#45. Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.

Michael Josephson

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