Quotes About Lies

An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

False as dicers' oaths.

Now boast thee, death, in thy possession liesA lass unparallel'd.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.

But yesterday the word of Caesar mightHave stood against the world; now lies he there,And none so poor to do him reverence.

Men lies about that,Some of 'em cries about that,Some of 'em dies about that,Everybody fightin' about a spoonful,That spoon, that spoon, that.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.

When people try to lie there are little things that betray the truth.

Truthfulness is overrated. The world works the way we want it to because of a thousand little innocent lies.

no such thing as the truth. There are only shades of lies.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.

We had no interest in saying what our audience wanted to hear. In fact, we wanted to tell them the opposite … and we did! The people on the side of the Truth will always end up with no audience. The liars will always have their huge audience. That's the difference between truth and lies. How will we make ourselves more popular? I know … we'll use emojis! Not!

Los políticos, como los niños, tienden a mentir como primera reacción. Es natural. La mentira es un manto que resguarda en primera instancia. Pero la verdad es terca y muerde con dientes afilados.

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Each fake called for some more fakes to cover the first ones up,

A bit of trouble with this? I'm having a goddamned nervous breakdown. The woman I love most in the world has—after five years of marriage—decided to finally tell me the truth about what she does. That's five years of lies. That's a shit-ton of lies.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.