Quotes About Lies

If freedom is about looking awful then I leave it to your revolutionaries like Comrade Dulcie. I'll have none of it and I'll have none of your lies. Liberate yourself and face up to being a Tupperware boy, light, multipurpose, adaptable. We're brand new Tupperware people and should thank God for that.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Had David Irving been the defendant in a case seeking to censor his lies, and had he lost, it might be argued that the loss compromised principles of free speech. But Irving was the plaintiff here. It was he who was trying to censor Lipstadt's truth by suing her for defamation.

Freedom of speech includes the right to expose lies, as Lipstadt did. It does not grant immunity from criticism to bigots like Irving.

That's the trouble with lies. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight.

It occurred to me that both Maria and I were on the run in the twenty-first century, just like George Sand whose name was also Amantine was on the run in the nineteenth century, and Maria whose name was also Zama was looking for somewhere to recover and rest in the twentieth. We were on the run from the lies concealed in the language of politics from myths about our character and our purpose in life. We were on the run from our own desires too probably, whatever they were.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

We were social liars, amusing ourselves at dinner parties. Making it even more wicked and fun, this was the New York world of literati—people both brilliant and smug. We goofed on all of them. Our lies were power, we imagined, although why I'm not sure.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

La beauté ne est que superficielle, mais mensonges horribles à l'os. beauté meurt et se estompe, mais laide tient sa propre! Cultiver la beauté intérieure qui ne se effacera jamais, mais grandit et mûrit avec le temps!

There is one and only one truth in this world. Half-truths are lies. White lies are lies, and alternative facts are lies too. Only whole truth is the pure truth that can set you free.

We don't get upset merely because someone lied to us. We're upset mainly because from that moment on we can't trust again, not just that person but anyone. It may not be too difficult to forgive and forget, although it's almost impossible to mend that broken trust.

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I know which one I was?" "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.

The air trickling out of his mouth like a series of tiny lies about the world that had decided to extinguish him.