Lies Quotes

[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'...

Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far l...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with l...

Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about that ...

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest me...

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situat...

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it ...

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation ...

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and s...

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to ...

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all ma...

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they...

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tel...

But the lie had to be a good one, because if your lie is badly done it makes everyone feel wretched,...

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but...

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upo...

Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime h...

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media p...

That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overta...

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth...

It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in a...

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...