Quotes About Lies

The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,

They do not expect the north to believe their lies, not truly, but they think we must pretend to believe or die.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Le mensonge n'a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l'unique privilège des misérables.

Truth exists, only lies are invented.

I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't even there. — George Santanaya As

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

I thought it was 'innocent until proven guilty'' That's just one of the bigger lies we live by.

Couples still indulge in courting rituals, humans still kill humans, and politicians still kiss babies and lie.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang on to, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past… And into a future that didn't require lies or excuses, because what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary—and not hing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.

This is the problem with lying, Axe. You do it once, and the other person has no idea what else you've been untruthful about. I come from a family of lies and silence. I can't go into that shadow world with someone I'm intimate with. Moreover, I won't do it. I told you in the beginning, honesty is the most important thing

Lies that are fundamental hurt fundamentally.

They had always been alike, in tune, of one mind. Tragedies, secrets, and lies, however, frayed even the closest of ties.

As has been seen, Obama clearly lied about transparency. As shall be seen, he lied just as spectacularly about the rule of law.

In October 2013, Caroline Glick, managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, spoke as bluntly as an Israeli editor can about an American president: "US President Barack Obama views lies as legitimate political tools. He uses lies strategically to accomplish through mendacity what he could never achieve through honest means.

I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies.

The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.