Quotes About Lies

La verdad duele, pero lo que más duele es el engaño.

La manera más eficaz de "reescribir" una vida es mezclar con descaro verdades con grandes mentiras

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

This student takes practice tests and then lies to him about her score. He is supposed to tutor her on what she doesn't know, but she can't tell him the truth about what she doesn't know!

It's a sad and grotesque thing that you and your friends have become so accustomed to lies that the truth has to be prefaced because it's inherently surprising, a startling departure from the lies that comprise your lives.

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.

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

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

When you've know me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

Is it all lies, forever and ever, everyone and everything?" - Sansa

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.

The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.

All me lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

Is that true? There is truth in it. And lies as well? There is an untruth, and an exaggeration.

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

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow

They bought clams and cockles from her, told her true tales of Braavos and lies about their lives, and laughed at the way she talked when she tried to speak Braavosi.

Troubled sleep was no stranger to him. He had lived his lies for fourteen years,

You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

He had lived his lies for fourteen years, yet they still haunted him at night.