Sebastian Brant Quotes

The world loves to be deceived.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and 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.

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

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

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

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

Deception is everywhere.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

All confrontation is based on deception.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

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

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.