Quotes About Lie

but the public will always choose a warmed-up lie over the cold truth.

It's the truth . . .' I lied again. She held my gaze for a few moments, but those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

All I can say is I am a footballer, and if a club like Milan are interested in me, then I cannot lie to you: I am happy, because it is Milan.

But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is unimaginable that he actually could have believed it, then we may say that he chose to pretend it might be. Very well, says Truth, you may pretend this. But the pretense will be, literally, your undoing. It will unmake you. You will have opted for something that is not, namely, a lie. Hell is built of lies.

Existential dread] is the profound awareness that one is capable of ultimate bad faith with himself and with others: that one is living a lie.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

This trickster demonstrated a hallmark behavior of a smart psychopath: Quick recovery once caught in a lie, so as to offer another that seemed more sincere.

Truth is nothing but a lie manipulated into art.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

The truth is frequently more dangerous than a lie.

Second, when you say, "I don't have time to do that right now," you're telling a polite lie to avoid saying, "I don't want to do that right now.

Someone who refuses to see the truth will accept the lie. Someone who accepts the lie will never see the truth

Someone who refuses to see the truth will accept the lie." Well.

We're gonna lie when the truth is hard? That's how this relationship is going to work? All righty, then.

When a storm comes, the lie will crumble and fall, and only the truth will remain

Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Success will require the studied lack of sophistication of a Ronald Reagan and the casual dishonesty of an FDR. The president must appear to be not very bright yet be able to lie convincingly.

The problem was that the American media and public could never distinguish between the lie and the truth.