The 95 best cheating phrases

Many things can be deceptive in this life, such as the supposed affection of a person, his appreciation for someone, the quality of a product or the opportunity that someone offers us... Deception is a common element in many human interactions, although this is an uncomfortable reality.

For this reason, it is important to know the nuances of this phenomenon and its ways of manifesting itself in communication. If you are interested in the subject, keep reading; here you will find a selection of the best cheating phrases, commented.

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The most interesting and memorable hoax phrases

This compilation of phrases about deception helps to understand the phenomenon of lying and betrayal in all its forms.

1. In an age of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)

Never put the truth aside, as it can drive large-scale social change.

2. The first time you cheat on me, it will be your fault; The second time, the fault will be mine. (Arabic proverb)

We must be careful with people who have already failed us.

3. Whoever wants to lie, cheats, and whoever wants to cheat, lies. (Mateo Alemán)

Lying goes hand in hand with deception.

4. The person who cheats on you once will cheat on you all his life, he will not do it like the first time, but he will cheat on you in different ways whatever he says.

It is preferable to cut all ties with someone who has cheated on you.

5. In time, a painful truth is better than a useful lie. (Thomas Mann)

Living in a lie is denying reality.

6. What worries me is not that you have lied to me, but that, from now on, I will no longer be able to believe in you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

When we live a deception it is very difficult to trust that person again.

7. To whom you tell your secret, you make your owner.

Be careful who you tell your stuff to.

8. Given the reiterated, and in the absence of anyone who contradicts, everyone believes, which does not mean knowing. (Fernando de la Rúa)

Everyone has an opinion that they consider to be true.

9. It is better to be defeated by telling the truth than to triumph by a lie. (Mahatma Gandhi)

A victory based on deception is an empty victory.

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10. He who receives what he cannot pay is deceiving. (Seneca)

There is always a reason to get our way.

11. I understand that the lie is deception and the truth is not. But both of them have deceived me. (Antonio Porchia)

An even harder deception to overcome.

12. A community is always better deceived than a man. (Pio Baroja)

It's frighteningly easy to control crowds.

13. The lies are in the mind, but the truth is in the soul. (Sofia Reyes)

A closed mind refuses to see change.

14. The half truth is the most cowardly of lies. (Mark Twain)

A half truth is more a lie than anything else.

15. The most common lie is one with which a man deceives himself. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

It is very common to lie to ourselves.

16. Art is the most beautiful of all deceptions. (Claude Debussy)

Art makes everything beautiful.

17. Don't lie to me unless you are absolutely sure that I will never find the truth.

A lie is always discovered.

18. Slander boldly: something will always remain. (Francis Bacon)

You have to have great audacity and a good memory to lie.

19. Lies and secrets are like a cancer in the soul. They eat what is good and leave only destruction. (Cassandra Clare)

Nothing good comes out of a lie.

20. Tell the truth from time to time so that they believe you when you lie. (Jules Renard)

A dangerous recipe.

21. A lie is the same as a betrayal, that's why I prefer the truth even if my heart hurts.

We see lying as a way of making fun of us.

22. The intention not to deceive never exposes us to be deceived many times. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Nor should we be innocent, it is better to have a certain index of doubt.

23. When you lie, you rob the other of the right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. (Khaled Hosseini)

The reality behind a hoax.

24. All the Art of War is based on deception. (Sun Tzu)

A deception that is beneficial, avoiding war itself.

25. You can fool everyone for a while. You can fool some all the time. But you can't fool everyone all the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

Sooner or later, someone will discover your lies.

26. To cover a fault with a lie is to replace a stain with a hole.

It is necessary to accept our mistakes to correct them.

27. Most men, falsifying the truth, want to appear better. (Aeschylus)

Those who brag all the time have something to hide.

28. If someone is lying about something small, you don't know what else they are lying about. (Jennifer Morrison)

When you discover a lie, you start to doubt whether the rest is true.

29. The only thing worse than a liar is a hypocritical liar. (Tennessee Williams)

Stay away from those who do not accept their mistakes, but look for excuses to justify them.

30. With a lie he usually goes very far, but without hope of returning. (Jewish proverb)

You may not be able to regain the confidence that you once had.

31. A lie may seem like the solution to get out of the present, but it has no future.

She can help you now, but it will cost you dearly tomorrow.

32. How many times results from a deception, against the deceiver the greatest damage! (Felix Maria Samaniego)

Good and bad things are returned.

33. History is a set of justified lies. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

There are many lies in the story, it depends on who is telling it.

34. The lies we tell other people are nothing compared to the lies we tell ourselves. (Derek Landy)

Sometimes it is a defensive element in the face of reality.

35. I was found after having cremated the costumes of deception. (Alejandro Lanús)

The benefit of lying is that it allows you to see the truth clearly.

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36. It costs nothing to tell the truth, however, the lie can cost you dearly.

You may not see any problems now, but you will regret it later.

37. He knows the facts first and then distorts them as much as you like. (Mark Twain)

To change something, it is necessary to know its origin in depth.

38. Don't lie, said the liar. (Popular saying)

Ironically, liars are the most offended when they discover a lie.

39. When you realize that a truth is a lie, what follows is anger. (Grace Slick)

No feeling of goodness can arise in such situations.

40. A half empty glass of wine is also a half full, but a half lie is by no means a half truth. (Jean Cocteau)

The truth is complete or it is nothing.

41. If you managed to deceive a person, it does not mean that they are stupid, it means that they trusted you more than you deserved.

Don't waste the trust someone gives you.

42. Cheating the cheater is doubly entertaining. (Jean de La Fontaine)

A revenge that arises by itself.

43. Do not trust people's appearance. (Brian Weiss)

As the saying goes, "appearances can be deceiving"

44. It is wise not to fully trust those who have deceived us once. (Rene Descartes)

If someone cheats on us once, they can do it a second.

45. We are easily deceived by those we love. (Molière)

Unfortunately, it is our close people who can hurt us the most.

46. Deception hurts, destroys, breaks and tears. It is not a good decision, nor a good accomplice. (Eduardo Alighieri)

So think twice when you think it is better to lie to someone.

47. The greatest friend of truth is time; his most bitter enemy, prejudice; and his constant companion, humility. (Charles C. Colton)

The truth always comes to light.

48. Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. (Susan Sontag)

A way to prevent others from harming you.

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49. With the bait of a lie a real carp is caught. (William Shakespeare)

The only positive side of a lie.

50. Do not lie to those who trust you, do not trust those who decide to lie to you.

Great advice to apply.

51. Although the analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading we have. (Samuel Butler)

Try to reason and listen to your instincts at the same time.

52. Cheating others is a relatively vain flaw. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nothing productive comes up after you've hurt someone.

53. I'd rather be hurt by the truth than be comforted by a lie. (Khaled Hosseini)

The pain of the truth lasts an instant, the weight of the lie can be carried forever.

54. The secret is the mother of all lies. (Toba Beta)

There are secrets that should not be kept.

55. An error does not become true by the fact that everyone believes in it. (Mahatma Gandhi)

We forgive a mistake when the person is willing to make amends.

56. No one is more likely to be deceived than the one for whom the lie conforms to his wishes. (Jorge Bucay)

Be careful of the great things they promise you.

57. Deception exists when what is first denied is granted. (Seneca)

There are great things that are achieved through deception.

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58. Lie once and all your truths will turn into doubts.

The price that is paid when deciding to use the lie.

59. Before it catches the liar to the lame. (Spanish saying)

No one can lie to everyone at the same time.

60. There is nothing you hate more than the stench of lies. (Martin Sheen)

Nobody wants to be fooled.

61. We are all islands screaming lies at each other, across seas of misunderstanding. (Rudyard Kipling)

It is misunderstandings that breed betrayals.

62. Do not believe anything of what they tell you, and of what you see, only half. (Popular proverb)

Check things out on your own.

63. Better to cry to hear the truth, than to smile deceived by lies.

No lie is worth living.

64. The crime of those who deceive us is not in the deceit, but in that they no longer let us dream that they will never deceive us. (Victor Ruiz Iriarte)

The punishment is not to be discovered, but to lose confidence forever.

65. I have more respect for a man who allows me to know what his position is, even if he is wrong. That the other one who comes as an angel but turns out to be a demon. (Malcolm X)

Differences are not our enemies, they are hypocritical people.

66. Come closer, because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to fool you. (Morgan Freeman)

We can fool ourselves when we create false expectations.

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67. The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. (Marquis of Vauvenargues)

Not all people are as wonderful as they claim to be.

68. The truth hurts only once, the lie every time it is remembered.

The lie is a circle that always turns.

69. The liar's punishment is not to be believed, even when telling the truth. (Aristotle)

Relentless punishment.

70. A lie cannot live. (Martin Luther King)

Lies have no future.

71. No liar wants to admit that that's what he is.

They don't want to accept that they have a big problem.

72. Of all the ways to fool others, the serious pose is the one that wreaks the most havoc. (Santiago Rusiñol)

The most believed lies are those that are told with a tone of undoubted seriousness.

73. The reason I talk to myself so much is because only I have the answers that I accept. (George Carlin)

Criticisms are assumed depending on what we perceive from them.

74. When witnesses make up lies, they tend to forget the most obvious issues. (John Grisham)

Nobody repeats the same story perfectly.

75. Sometimes people need to lie to themselves more than anything else. (Patrick Ness)

Like a kind of balm to relieve the pressures of society.

76. The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. (Ann Landers)

Never underestimate the power of truth.

77. Living a lie will reduce you to being a lie. (Ashly Lorenzana)

If you live in a lie, everything you do will be a deception.

78. You can't have a good relationship with people who wear masks constantly.

How to trust someone who doesn't let anyone get close?

79. The evil of slander is similar to an oil stain: it always leaves traces. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

When you defame someone, without having certain bases, you are ruining their life.

80. Do not trust men even if you see them cry, that crying they are thinking how they are going to deceive you.

There are people who are not to be trusted.

81. The lie is done with words, but also with silences. (Adrienne Rich)

Silence can make us accomplices of a deception.

82. Nothing deceives us as much as our own judgment. (Leonardo da Vinci)

That is why it is always good to seek the opinions of others.

83. The irony about lies is that you want to discover one, and you end up discovering them all.

When you discover a lie, you can see what things are false.

84. The easiest way to be fooled is to think yourself smarter than others. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

A way to fool ourselves.

85. Not all that glitters is gold. (Saying)

Therefore, do not get carried away by the things you see with the naked eye.

86. Time turns our lies into truths. (Gene Wolfe)

There is a saying that goes, "Lie until you believe it"

87. The problem is not the lie, it is that you believe that I do not deserve the truth.

It makes you feel like you've been put down.

88. Lies and stories, hundreds are born from one. (Spanish saying)

When a lie is told this scale in the mouths where it falls.

89. A lie may be less of a lie than a well-chosen truth. (Jean Rostand)

Even the truths can be misleading.

90. All men are born sincere and die liars. (Marquis De Vauvenargues)

We have all lied at times.

91. A lie would be meaningless if the truth was not perceived as dangerous. (Alfred Adler)

Lies arise when the truth is too risky to be told.

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92. In the mouth of the liar, the truth becomes doubtful. (Spanish saying)

A liar will always have a reputation for being a liar.

93. Your lies do not lead me to hate you, they lead me to lose all the respect I had for you.

A harsher sentence.

94. Your tongue can tell lies, but your eyes tell the truth. (Amber Jacobs)

Our non-verbal language says more than we think.

95. Liars make the best promises. (Pierce Brown)

They are discovered when they are not able to fulfill them.