Quotes About Lies

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Answer questions truthfully and don't exaggerate your experience. Lies will come back to haunt you.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

'Chernobyl' is a human story. It's not a disaster movie. It's not about explosions. It's about people and truths and lies.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are told are objective any more, so my personal feeling is that you have to try to take them on.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Si alguien te dice que estás muy guapo cuando te enfadas, miente.

know you believe that the politics in London are especially uncivil, but you'll soon see that the style here in America is every bit as ferocious, and marked with backbiting, lies, deceit, and ill will.

The greater accessibility of information through computers and the Internet serves to foster the illusion that the ability to retrieve words and numbers with the click of a mouse also confers the capacity to judge whether those words and numbers represent truth, lies, or something in between.

How did you know?' she asked as he sat her on her feet inside the door. 'I didn't. This was just in case.' he lied, this man who'd had women pursuing him since his adolescence…