Vernon Howard Quotes

The world loves to be deceived.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

The world wants to be deceived.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.