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Of course, disinformation," Quinn said. "I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place. -- Terry Goodkind
He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business... -- Girdhar Joshi
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. -- Blaise Pascal
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself. -- John Flanagan
Disinformation is duping.
Misinformation is tricking. -- Toba Beta
For the first time, Smollett adopted a device that Barbara Foley calls "pseudofactual imposture," a strategy of presentation that we associate with the fictions of Behn, Defoe, and Richardson. -- Tobias Smollett
A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. -- Sherman Kennon
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
There's always some kind of hidden logic. -- Christian Lacroix
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions. -- Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. -- David Limbaugh
A fault is fostered by concealment. -- Virgil
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. -- Garry Disher
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. -- Vernor Vinge
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward. -- Edward Abbey
There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind. -- Luigina Sgarro
Now you're lying, Dandelion.' 'Not lying, just embellishing, and there's a difference. -- Andrzej Sapkowski
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. -- Frantz Fanon
Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide. -- Khalil Gibran
Here is yet another statement of the core idea of this book, that data concerning people is best thought of as people in disguise, and they're usually up to something. -- Jaron Lanier
The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible. -- Richard Dawkins
Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet. -- Leigh Bardugo
Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret. -- Brandon Sanderson
One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While -- Mortimer J. Adler
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power. -- Robert Greene
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light. -- Wislawa Szymborska
His appearance in reality a hidden masquerade -- Justin Bienvenue
The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible. -- John Varley
doing with the puzzled -- Douglas Adams
Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies. -- Yvan Audouard
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
half truths equal whole lies -- Fred Munoz
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. -- Russell Lynes
At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment. -- George Washington
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. -- Richard Steele
Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. -- Dejan Stojanovic
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom -- David Mitchell
Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth. -- J.g. Ballard
Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth. -- Toba Beta
Plans were promises in disguise. -- Julie Murphy
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. -- Charles Dickens
Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like. -- Edward Burtynsky
It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie. -- George Eliot
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. -- Samuel P. Huntington
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Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it. -- Rex Stout
The half-truths have been in fashion again. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Liars often set their own traps. -- Aesop
Make subtlety obvious. -- Billy Wilder
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. -- F Scott Fitzgerald
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive, -- Stephen R. Covey
I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. -- Jay-Z
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment ... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it. -- Max Frisch
[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up. -- Amos Tversky
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth -- Leo Tolstoy
There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. -- Edmund Burke
[T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug. -- Charles Dickens
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. -- Paul Johnson
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. -- David Hume
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. -- William Sanderson
A smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence. -- Edith Wharton
'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing. -- Leonard Mlodinow
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. -- Herman Melville
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis. -- Sergei Lavrov
Some enmities conceal themselves beneath a mask, some under a kiss. -- Publilius Syrus
Lies so convincingly you'd swear they were telling the -- Abigail Strom
There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses. -- Toba Beta
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. -- Heraclitus
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. -- Lewis B. Smedes
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. -- Serge Schmemann
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished. -- Baruch Spinoza
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
All the lies that have ever been told or ever will be told fall into three categories, or strategies: lies of commission, lies of omission, and lies of influence. -- Philip Houston
That's what bitter people did. Pointed the finger and blamed others. Obfuscation was a way of hiding from their own shortcomings and wounds. -- Rachel Hauck
For these disguises did not disguise, but reveal. -- G.k. Chesterton
The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him. -- Anuradha Bhattacharyya
You're avoiding me."
I glance over. "Just a bit."
"A bit? There aren't degrees of avoidance, Dean. You're either avoiding someone, or you aren't."
"Not true. Sometimes there're extenuating circumstances. Unexpected variables. -- Elle Kennedy
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie. -- Errol Morris
Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn't you say? Everyone practises it, from the President of China to the whores on Lockhart Road. -- Michael Wreford
Facts are subversive -- I. F. Stone
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception -- Agatha Christie
Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true. -- Paul Ekman
One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent. -- William Shakespeare
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. -- Washington Allston
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. -- Wendy Lesser
Half truths are full lies. -- Tionne Rogers
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. -- Bobbie Gentry
Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. -- John Milton
Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary. -- Brent Weeks
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. -- Elias Canetti
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along. -- Evariste Galois
Lies and partial truths complicate life. -- Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em. -- Harry S. Truman
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
