Form Quote by Baltasar Gracian

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Overthinking kills your happiness, insecurities kills your self-esteem, & lies kills your trust.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The great skill in lying is not lying, you'd say. Just leaving things out. Keeping everything as close to the actual truth as possible.…

— Rebecca Stott

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

No matter how popular a Lie is, it can never overpower the virtuous of Truth.

— Terry Mark

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to…

— Samuel Butler

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his…

— Owen Feltham

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

— Penn Jillette

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its…

— Daniel Kahneman

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

— Walter Raleigh

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

— Jodi Picoult