Quotes About Lies

A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. —William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence

The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them.

They've met a thousand liars and heard a million lies. Yours ain't gonna fly. They won't tell you that you're full of crap—they'll keep you talking, getting you to lie about a bunch of things, making notes in their head while you tell yourself that you're the most persuasive motherfucker on the planet. They want you to walk away thinking you got away with it, or so panicked you screw up in front of them.

A man who believes that a convincing lie can shape the cosmos in a way he sees fit may not have a problem erasing one or two inconvenient barriers in his path. Obstacles that happen to be sitting in his private jet.

Fuck you. You think this is a scene in some indie drama you take my wife to in the Village, some pack of lies the guy at the Times said was so naturalistically performed. But in real life? We're bad actors. We're slobs who actually hurt. You don't feel it, you couldn't, but the pain you're causing us—causing my family—it's destroying our lives, what we have together. What we had.

Winston Churchill once observed that in wartime, truth is so precious that she needs to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.)

People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.

And now he was glowing with happiness, pride and a sense of importance, like every liar when his lies accidentally turn out to be true.

Pero esas mentiras, aunque eran mentiras, no estaban pensadas para engañar.

Non mi hanno insegnato a curare. Mi hanno insegnato a uccidere, spiegandomi che in questo modo avrei potuto salvare delle vite. Era una grossa menzogna, Cavallino. Mi hanno ingannato.

Hicimos el amor. Y hablamos. Y nuestras mentiras fueron cada vez más hermosas. Y cada vez más falsas.

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?

By the way, have you ever noticed that if any one of us lies to them, it is a felony? But if any one of them lies to us, it is considered politics.

You hide your instinctive self and instead create a social self with lies. That's how people are able to get along with each other. What's scary is when you strip all the lies away to get at the essential you. What if it's pure evil? You don't want to face that. So lies aren't all bad - we need them to live.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

Whether it was threatening to remove the President with phony 25th Amendment attacks, ridiculous Russian collusion conspiracy theory lies, or false criminal accusations about a perfect phone call with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Democrats tried to overturn the 2016 election because they simply couldn't handle the results.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.