Lies Quotes

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not...

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood a...

When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot o...

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If s...

[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going rou...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could s...

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth dr...

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! Th...

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the ...

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'm...

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me...

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a m...

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so th...

Why are we here? We're here to go!

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. I...

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe whi...

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even...

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resourc...

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because...

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the d...

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

The I you know isn’t me, you said, truthtelling liarMy roots are not my chainsAnd I to you:   Whose ...

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that...

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use ...

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the...

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stori...

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to...

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and...

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness," she said, "only it was not happy an...

...I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay alof...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful...

But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies....

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are nece...

I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if me...

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like t...

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no...

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teache...

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some...

She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softl...

How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...

Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much...

[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...

He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inco...

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li...

Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, ...

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

When to people tell the same lie...""They are working together," Will finished

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave on...

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in...

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the ...

the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmat...

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lie...

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee...

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into canni...

Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her back...

Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he ca...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some wou...

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we'...