Quotes About Lies

God, how easy it is to get people to believe. In fact the only thing no one would believe is how little one has to offer for a soul. There's not even any thrill in it. It's like culling cattle, whole nations. You don't have to promise them eternity, you just have to lie with them in the darkness, and sometimes sing them a song.

Take her to the kitchen," came the order. "If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." "He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn't he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?" Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes."We," he said, "have knives.

Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.

Every history book, no matter how ostensibly objective, is basically lies filtered through bias and a certain amount of relative ignorance.

The only way for me to survive with some dignity and recapture a corner of my sanity was to shut down the compartment that contained the painful memories, the insults, and the lies.

You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbour the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.

You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies. God lies within you, God has returned to earth to teach you, in the form of this new power.

You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies. God lies within you, God has returned to earth to teach you, in the form of this new power. Do not come to me looking for answers, for you must find the answers within yourself.

You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.

In my dream, the ghost of history lies down beside me, rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies

The lies we believe become idols when we believe the false promises behind them.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: "There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Walter Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: "There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.

Anna was too old to believe that people always lied for a reason. Mostly they lied because it was easy, felt good, or was habit.

He has to lie,' said Karen. 'He always lied. I hope he hasn't hurt you.

But a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

What wanton liars love makes of us.

I'm exhausted by your lies. By all the pretence. By the constant . . . I don't know . . . the constant obfuscation, I suppose, is the word.

But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that sees itself as worldly and wise.

It's easy to lie to people you're leaving.

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files.