Lord Byron Quotes

A reforming age is always fertile of imposters.

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

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Do not suppose the statements of the Prophets to be true; they are all fabrications.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

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

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

The world loves to be deceived.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

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

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

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

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

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

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.