Quotes about Deception
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
— Rick Warren
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
— Mark Twain
No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.
— TB Joshua
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
— Clement of Alexandria
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
— JI Packer
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
— Oscar Wilde
The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.
— Marianne Williamson
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
— Thomas Merton
The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.
— Max Lucado