Quotes about Deception
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- George Eliot
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
- Horatius Bonar
Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.
- Greg Koukl
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
- Joyce Meyer
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
- William Faulkner
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- Victor Hugo