Vernon Lee Quotes

The world loves to be deceived.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

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

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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

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

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

The world wants to be deceived.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

A reforming age is always fertile of imposters.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

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.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

Lies require commitment.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.