Quotes About Lies

one in 10 text messages involves a lie of some kind. . . .

By 2018, the world had become largely inured to Trump's tweets—even with their racism and misogyny, their mindless belligerence, norm-shattering impropriety, and constant lies.

In a press briefing on May 10, Sarah Sanders, who was then the deputy press secretary, said that Rosenstein had decided "on his own" to review Comey's performance and then chose "on his own" to tell the president his views. (Both statements were lies.)

In a press briefing on May 10, Sarah Sanders, who was then the deputy press secretary, said that Rosenstein had decided "on his own" to review Comey's performance and then chose "on his own" to tell the president his views. (Both statements were lies.) In addition, Sanders said, "We've heard from countless members of the FBI" supporting the president's decision. (Sanders later admitted this, too, was a lie.)

On the other hand, Trump's abuse of power regarding Ukraine had more grave consequences. He put Ukrainian lives at risk; he rewarded Russian aggression; he jeopardized American national security; he misled our allies; he undermined Congress's power of the purse; and he lied to everyone about what he was doing and why.

Still, for someone who lied as much as Trump did, he was a remarkably transparent figure. He never really pretended to be anything other than what he was—a narcissistic scoundrel. Yet he survived.

The truth costs. Lies cost more.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth,

I didn't admit it to Liz and Chloe,but I remembered exactly what I'd been thinking when I took this quiz in seventh grade.I'd been hoping I wouldn't go to hell for telling the little white lies I was telling.I would have been mortified to say so, but when I'd picked Barry Yates or Mark Jones or any boy for the rest of the quiz,i'd always meant Nick.

He'd stood there in the snow at Mile-High Pie last night and made me feel sorry for him! He'd made me feel terrible for something I didn't even do, after he'd lied to me to my face! And then he'd kissed me and I'd let him! Mortifying! Now his lips parted. I waited to hear the next lie. I almost hoped it was a good one, so at least I'd have an entertaining story to share with my friends about what an ass he was.

I would never lie to you, Mica," she lied.

All lies are just truths served more palatably.

lyingest liar of them all.

Secrets, lies, All I despise. The tree is poison, Don't you see? It poisoned S and Z and me. The evidence I stole Is in the darkest hole. Light shall reveal all I writ upon the…

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

She knows in her heart that it doesn't work like this. That misfortune doesn't give you the right to disregard others, ignore the rules, tell lies and half-truths.

Adults could be barefaced liars too, of course, and about no subject so much as their own bodies. In Lib's experience, those who wouldn't cheat a shopkeeper by a farthing would lie about how much brandy they drank or whose room they'd entered and what they'd done there. Girls bursting out of their stays denied their condition till the pangs gripped them. Husbands swore blind that their wives' smashed faces were none of their doing. Everybody was a repository of secrets.

pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down.

Le patriotisme […] est une superstition créée artificiellement et entretenue par tout un réseau de mensonges et de faussetés ; une superstition qui enlève à l'homme tout respect pour lui-même et toute dignité, et accroît son arrogance et son mépris. En effet, mépris, arrogance et égoïsme sont les trois éléments fondamentaux du patriotisme.

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That bloody guide lies all the time. It's more lies than truth.' Ford spouted the standard line: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred per cent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable

I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.

If we live all our lives under lies, it becomes difficult to see anything if it does not have anything to do with these lies. If it is, for example, true or, say, honest.

Truths are failed to sell in the market but lies are purchased with high price without pricing it.