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Quotes About Lies

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan
~ Alan Turing
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
~ George Orwell
One of my movies was called True Lies. It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
~ Lord Byron
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
~ Alexander Pope
You say you'll never forget me, but the lies have piled up.
~ Unknown
I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.
~ Unknown
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
~ Martha Gellhorn
The manipulated millions could be aroused or soothed by any lies. The guiding light of journalism was no stronger than a glow-worm.
~ Martha Gellhorn
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
~ Martin Luther
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
~ Martin Luther
Some indeed have invented outrageous lies about the Turks in order to stir up us Germans against them, but there is no need for lies; the truth is all too great.
~ Martin Luther
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence' Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10
~ Martina Cole
Whoever said that money made you happy was a liar. A dirty rotten stinking liar!
~ Martina Cole
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
~ Richard Bach
A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes
~ Unknown
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
~ Margot Asquith
Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will. They'll court you, whisper to you, play behind your eyelids, slip inside and warm your blood, dance along your spine and caress your neck until your flesh rises in bumps.
~ Mary E. Pearson
How does it feel? The rope dug into my wrist . Numbed my ankles. Familiar , I had wanted to answer. Being a prisoner feels familiar. It was all I had ever been. My past held on to me me as strongly as it had when I was a child, my choices still limited, my steps still shackled. My life had been patched together with lies from the day I was born. How does it feel? Old. I was tired of lies.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Deceit knew no boundaries.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The thing about a mark is they've created lies in their head, a story they've invented that they desperately want to believe, a fantasy that merely needs to be fed.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The silence stretched, and I heard a chain that was no longer there, jingling. I felt Jase holding me in a river, keeping my head above the water... If he had been cruel back then, his lies now would hurt me less.
~ Mary E. Pearson