John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

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

All confrontation is based on deception.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

The world wants to be deceived.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

I had to cheat, steal, beg, borrow and lie….

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.

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

I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

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.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.