Quotes About Lies

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

...but I'd learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

Imagination can create lies that duals truths.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

the difference between secret andlie is similar to the difference of iceand water.when you heat ice it becomes water.and when you force anyone toreveal there secrets it comes in aform of lie.

Sometimes, the truth makes everything else seem like.

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

For GQ's Andrew Corsello, Louis C.K.'s qualification to be considered El Supremo is that he is more than a comedian—he is a bug zapper of white lies and dark impulses, an urban shaman receiving and transmitting warped vibrations, a psychic surgeon delving into our shifty, cloaked selves.