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Quotes About Lies

Strange things are said to have happened in this world — some are said to be happening still — but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.
~ James P. Blaylock
The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.
~ James Patterson
The bigger the lies he pretended to tell, the more truthful the stories became.
~ James Patterson
Minciunile sunt fascinante pentru c? ele demasc? paradoxurile societ??ii noastre
~ James Patterson
When a high government official lies, he commits a horrible crime. We've put our trust in that person, based on his solemn word, his integrity.
~ James Patterson
matters in life, he said, and focus on that. The rest is bullshit. I was wondering if I was reaching that stage myself, though I was less than half Stewart's age. I was so tired of the lies. It was enough that I spent my career chasing bad guys—and sometimes bad cops. The bad guys I could deal with. Somebody needed
~ James Patterson
I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.
~ James Salter
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
~ John le Carre
We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
~ Cyril Ramaphosa
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
~ Harry Frankfurt
Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.
~ Usain Bolt
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
~ Anatole France
Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.
~ Chris Rock
Colourful lips are pretty, child but they also speak colourful lies.
~ J. Limbu
I'm sorry to say this, but Putin is spreading lies. He is doing this with the goal of removing Stalin's Russia responsibility for starting the war jointly with Nazi Germany. I assumed he is ashamed of that.
~ Andrzej Duda
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
~ Joseph Brodsky
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the Internet, which they justified by claiming they were merely filtering out lies. Our government cannot and should not take that path.
~ Tom Malinowski
Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
~ Ted Nugent
The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
~ Geraldo Rivera
I believe the earth is stationary, but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years. I just believed everything was a lie - all the wars, that there was no government, that corporations ran the world, that everything was a fraud - that everyone lied about everything.
~ Mike Hughes
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
~ Stephen Leacock
Staying in China provided me with the opportunity to adjust to life outside of North Korea and to gain a sense of perspective, most importantly, by learning that so much of what I had been taught about my country was a lie.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
~ Virginia Foxx