Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Aesop
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
Jordan Peterson
We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us, and these appearances are usually misleading.
Robert Greene
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Aldous Huxley
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Anne Swetchine
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support, strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
Julian Bond
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Many kiss the hands they would fain see chopped off.
Arab proverbs
Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you.
English proverbs
Report makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German proverbs
The archer that shoots ill has a lie ready.
Spanish proverbs
