Quotes About Lies

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.

There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.

You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.

I want to tell you so many lies," he says.

You're nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn't lie to yourselves, you'd cut your own throats to end your misery.

One doesn't have to lie to deceive.

He takes a step toward me. ¨The other night---¨"I cut him off.¨I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system.¨ ¨And is it?¨ he asks. ¨Out of you system?¨ I look him in the face and lie. ¨Yes.¨ Page 181

We don't need her!' Oak shouts, the first time I have really seen his emotions out of his control. 'And I don't want her.' The words hurt, the more because he cannot lie.

Good." said Hazel. "Boy son the Internet lie." "All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.

I want to tell you so many lies/

Cuando me permito pensarlo, no puedo culpar a Locke por elegirla a ella. Soy violenta. He estado envenenandome durante semanas. Soy asesina, una mentirosa y una espia

One of Locke's finest qualities was his ability to recast all their lowliest exploits as worthy of a ballad, told and retold until Cardan could almost believe that staggeringly better or thrillingly worse version of events. He could no more lie than any of the Folk, but stories were the closest thing to lies the Folk could tell.

Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.

The most infuriating part was that she didn't have to mean it. She was mortal. She could lie. So why wouldn't she?

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

I come across journalists in theatre lobbies; it makes me shudder to see them. Journalism is an inferno, a bottomless pit of iniquity and treachery and lies; no one can traverse it undefiled, unless, like Dante, he is protected by Virgil's sacred laurel.

Calm and smiling faces and placid brows covered sordid interests, expressions of friendship were a lie, and more than one man was less distrustful of his enemies than of his friends.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

Liane Moriarty

I reflected, by experiencing disaster my generation did learn one terribly important thing -- the danger that lies in blind obedience.