Bullshit-there's more of that than anything else in the world.

You can't cure a patient who's pretending to be sick.

If honesty were truly the best policy, humanity would not continually be in the mess it's in.

If the devil is the ultimate deceiver, then words must be the very devil.

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

You can inflict any torment on people once you convince them their suffering brings them closer to God.

Heated discussion: when you try to convince others of what you don't believe yourself.

Hope always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

A common phrase: I was deceived; an uncommon one: I am deceived.