Quotes About Lies

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.

Conviction, Nietzsche said, is a greater enemy of truth than lies.)

It's not easy to pull off the Big Lie and George Bush has failed.

Denial is apt to be quicker than the truth, and so are well-rehearsed lies.

The idea here is that childhood lies are not just a phase of harmless delinquency we pass smoothly through, but the first in a series of test runs for self-serving dishonesty. Through positive reinforcement (for undetected and fruitful lies) and negative reinforcement (for lies that peers uncover, or through the reprimand of kin) we learn what we can and can't get away with, and what our kin do and don't consider judicious deceit.

Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fame was inevitably diminished. Fame's message was unadorned. Fame and literature were irreconcilable enemies.

I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

I told myself that I clenched my lips shut because it was the nobler thing to do, to keep these secrets to myself was better than to let the truth destroy her. Did I lie to myself, then? Don't we all?

by all the lies I had ever spoken and all the truths I had made into lies by leaving them unspoken.

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

They're lying. Angel's friends, her brother—they all know more than they're saying. And yet they also seem genuinely concerned and want her back. Meaning?

What a lying piece of dirt! ~ Eve

What's interesting is the families that pretend to be happy, that have a carefully constructed facade, just barely propped up by secrets and lies. One breath and it all falls down. I can't wait to see yours crumble.

But his efforts were fractional compared to hers; and her praise was equal in measure to the encouragement she doled out to the children for their drawings that showed little talent, their stilted piano playing, or middling efforts on the soccer field. Not lies, exactly.

Mother and Father making their customary comments (and lies, Jonas knew) about the day.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

Although demons can lie. So can humans, muttered Des. And rather more often.

You have a choice, she told the class. The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.

Madonna Maria, Dottore, please tell me some lies. I am not Pinocchio. The truth will make us free. We overcome by looking it in the eyes.

Such are the amenities of social life, which oft makes a liar of the best of men.