Quotes About Lies

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

When it came down to it, Sandy didn't have much use for words because so many of the ones he had heard over his life had been lies.

She wonders if he is as exhausted by all the lying as she is.

Yet soft, tactical lies, so-called white lies—is it okay to call them white or is that now racist?—are the social WD-40 of day-to-day life, greasing all the tiny connections, keeping things frictionless.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

This was RULE 32: TELL ONE LIE AND GET READY TO TELL A WHOLE LOT MORE.

The Devil is a lie.So don't go sharing them yourself.

So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended. Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good.

how many lies had Maman told Paul over the years?

To say that sex is not a 'need' is one of the most abominable lies perpetrated on humanity by the Christian church.

the psychobabble spelled out in magazines, the imaginary divans we would never wish to lie on ourselves, all they do is hold up mirrors in which not a single truth is revealed, because the truth is always trounced by the lie. Was Heinz a liar by saying nothing? Did he drink because he never stopped telling lies?

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.

In this environment – where lies are accepted enthusiastically precisely because they are lies – it is easy to see how the largely discredited theory of Eurasianism could become a central ideological theme, not to mention a strategic doctrine enjoying broad authority among the political elite. In this way, loyalty to a man and a regime has now become supplemented by loyalty to an idea and a set of texts that possibly no one actually believes – not even the authors.

The magic reel, which, rolling on before has led the chronicler thus far, now slackens its pace, and stops. It lies before the goal; the pursuit is at anend.

Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same.

lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Drat that boy," interposed my sister, frowning at me over work, "what a questioner he is. As no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

It wasn't fate, it wasn't destiny–there was no Will of God, no Force of History to absolve us. It grew out of who we were: the lies we'd told, and would keep on telling.