Lies Quotes

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that han...

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the leas...

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a re...

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, ...

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your crit...

Time turns our lies into truths.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under ...

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be war...

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent...

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Truth exists only lies are invented.

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mut...

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a ...

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This i...

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...

For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the tim...

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathe...

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth tol...

Oddly enough, the only person likely to be an ideal victim of complete manipulation is the President...

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by ...

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thin...

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how yo...

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in h...

Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the pro...

Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do t...

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives wh...

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we m...

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fan...

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. W...

Why do you think it is stupid to go to windows instead of to doors?”“Because you advertise what you’...

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Tr...

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the ...

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devi...

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed,...

If you look at the world today, lies are mainstream. Truth is a fringe phenomenon.

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I wer...

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverb...

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the an...

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepare...

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside ...

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the tru...

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a ...

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they could...

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What c...

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get somethin...

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, ...

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

On all the peaks lies peace.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive ...

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All c...

I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and th...

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, ...

When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at leas...

I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pai...

Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed clos...

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out.""Yes, ...

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were...

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too...

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but ...

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...