Marquis de Sade Quotes

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

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

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.