Quotes About Lies

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest. A lie, Savich thought.

Psychopaths lack empathy, have a superficial charm and a grandiose sense of self-worth, and are pathological liars. As

So, who's stronger, the man who looks truth in the eye, or the man who tells himself lies to make it go away?

Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar.

The trouble with lies is that they love company. Once you tell a single lie, that lie gets terribly excited and calls all its friends to visit. Soon you find yourself making room for them in every corner, turning down beds and lighting lamps to make them comfortable, feeding them and tidying them and mending them when they start to wear thin.

A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.

Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.

There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.

Dreamers don't make good workers. So you teach them that no matter how miserable, what they've got is the best, and the Other is terror and lies. Well, to be bold, fuck that.

Rehab had been cursed indeed. There was no way Mohamed could have raised the money to buy his secret stash of gold without scrimping on his family. I imagined the lies he'd told, as he denied her every little luxury. Four years of privation: the punishment for having only a daughter.

Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.

Nel paese della bugia, la verità è una malattia.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he can no longer distinguish the truth, within him or around him.

There are many kinds of betrayals. There are the small ones: the unkind word, the laughter behind someone's back, the petty lies. And there are the betrayals that break hearts, destroy worlds, and turn the strong, sweet light of day into bitter dust.

Given that the shared understanding of truth has been central to language, religion and society, when we ignore small lies, we inflict damage on the larger truth. This is not holiness we're talking about, but wholeness and integrity.

A linguagem acha-se toda ensopada de mentiras.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.