Voltaire Quotes

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

People are secretive when they have secrets.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Fine words dresse ill deedes.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

There is no language without deceit.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.