Quotes About Lies

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.

Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

Happy people didn't tell lies.

Astrology fell into the class of a fake lie ...and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain. Cicero's capacities were reserved for lies that mattered. Ideology, though that word was yet unknown to him: the veil of sustaining fiction that drove the world, what people needed to believe. This, Cicero wished to unmask and unmake, decry and destroy. (p. 65)

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

This pattern tells the client that his friends are involved in personal wars and disputes. He may get caught in the middle of several disagreements. Here, there is danger: His friends, relatives, and acquaintances might all tell him lies or half truths, hoping to make him take sides. In all patterns of Ogundá, the number three is a danger. There are two sides to every disagreement, but if the client gets involved, he creates a threesome. He must refuse to be involved

Most stories, especially difficult ones, are a mix of truth and lies.

I saw that civilization was honeycombed with what Max Nordau called conventional lies, with sham ecstasy, sham sympathy, sham smiles, sham laughter The

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

novels, the great lies that tell the truth, the world in its most heroic and salacious forms can always

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.

we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today's society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.

The man was, beyond doubt, a pathological liar. He lied to his various wives, to his friends, to his lawyers, to his employees, to detectives, to reporters, and to everyone else, right down to the census man. He lied in his diary.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I shall never believe that what is founded on lies can endure for ever. I believe in truth. I'm sure that, in the long run, truth must be victorious.

Le Jeuden, des Dreugen, Au Frauden