Quotes About Lies

No te creas todas las historias que te cuenten, Bast. Las historias mienten.

In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi

I am a myth," Kote said easily, making an extravagant gesture. "A very special kind of myth that creates itself. The best lies about me are the ones I told.

No puedo creerlo. Me mentiste. ¡A mí! Kote suspiró y subió pesadamente la escalera. —¿Estás enfadado porque te he mentido, o porque no me has pillado mintiéndote? —preguntó.

En resumen, una buena historia. Y si bien no era del todo cierta… bueno, al menos contenía parte de verdad. Diré, en mi defensa, que habría podido prescindir por completo de la verdad y haberles contado una historia mucho mejor. Las mentiras son más fáciles, y casi siempre tienen más sentido.

Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder. "He's telling the truth." Simmon glanced over at him. "Why do you say that?" "He sounds more sincere than that when he lies.

told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played,

No me importa que me llamen mentiroso. Lo soy. Soy un mentiroso extraordinario. Pero no soporto que me llamen mentiroso cuando estoy diciendo la verdad.

So he went down through the house, its silence alive with clocks, suggestions of subterfuge, the blatant echoes of downright lies, together with hints of the exasperating, unknowable truth.

Una mentira nunca puede deshacerse. Ni siquiera la verdad es suficiente.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The book was a work of fiction. Even though it was based on facts, it could tell nothing but lies. I signed the contract, and afterwards I felt like a man who had signed away his soul.

It indicates where the problem lies for Descartes. It lies in other people.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

Most often lies fail because some sign of an emotion being concealed leaks. The stronger the emotions involved in the lie, and the greater the number of different emotions, the more likely it is that the lie will be betrayed by some form of behavioral leakage.

when they were, in fact, lying. They were taken in by the false expressions and ignored the expressions that leaked the true feelings. When people lie, their most evident, easy-to-see expressions, which people pay most attention to, are often the false ones. The subtle signs

I'd head to the Taurus, the only bar in the Grove that's older than I am. It's a brew-and-burger place in a quiche-and-cappuccino world, and I like it there. I'd have a couple of drafts, shoot some blow darts on the patio, tell harmless lies to various women, all the time wondering just what the hell was going on.

Reporters rely on what people tell them. A woman claims she was the lover of a president. The story is accurate, because she said it, but where's the truth? A spokesman for the tobacco industry claims there's no proven link between smoking and lung cancer. Religious fanatics ignore all science and maintain that the Earth is only six thousand years old. So rule number one, the news is filled with accurate lies.

Sometimes the truth will not set you free. Sometimes it will send you away for life.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Narcissists are actors playing a part. They are expert liars, and, even worse, they believe their own lies. Practiced in dishonesty, they can't tell the difference between their own version of truth and a falsehood. They may take the past and rearrange it to make themselves look good. They rarely if ever admit fault, and they never say they're sorry. —Rokelle Lerner, author of The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists

Rumour has a hundred mouths.

Eres una mentirosa! –vociferó Alexandr–. Te lo prohíbo. Te prohíbo que vayas a buscarles la comida. Devuélveles las cartillas y diles que vayan ellas a buscarse su maldita comida. No quiero que vayas nunca más a buscarles el pan si son incapaces de guardarte un poco de la comida que traigo. Tatiana

Worse of all, I had to live with a terrible secret. I told lies to keep people from finding out what I'd done and then I had to tell more lies to cover up the first ones. Through it all, I felt like scum. I regretted what I had done and I hated pretending all the time but it was too late. - Kit Hathaway