William Faulkner Quotes

The world loves to be deceived.

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

The world wants to be deceived.

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.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

Liars often set their own traps.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

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

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

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.