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Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
-Japanese Proverb
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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
-Arabic Proverb
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Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
-English Proverb
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Great talker, great liar.
-Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining.
-Proverb
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They say is often a great liar.
-Proverb
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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
-Proverb
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
-Joseph Addison
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Liars are always ready to take oaths.
-Vittorio Alfieri
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
-Minna Antrim
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
-Aristotle
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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
-Robert Armstrong
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The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.
-Francis Bacon
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
-Francis Bacon
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
-Arthur Balfour
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
-George Bancroft
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
-Lyman Beecher
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Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,
Had kept a strict regard for truth,
Attempted to believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her.
-Hilaire Belloc
Cautionary Tales, 1907
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
-Hilaire Belloc
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
-Georges Bernanos
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-Otto von Bismarck
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
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Thought is generally considered to be a sober and weighty business. But here it is being suggested that creative play is an essential element in forming new hypotheses and ideas. Indeed, thought which tries to avoid play is in fact playing false with itself. Play, it appears, is the very essence of thought.
This notion of falseness that can creep into play of thought is shown in the etymology of the words illusion, delusion, and collusion, all of which have as their Latin root ludere, to play. So illusion implies playing false with perception; delusion, playing false with thought; collusion, playing false together in order to support each other's illusions and delusions. When thought plays false, the thinker may occasionally recognize this fact, and express it in the above words.
co-authored with F. David Peat
-David Bohm
Science, Order, and Creativity
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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Books about Deception/Lying
