Quotes About Lies

It is hard enough to recognize lies for what they are if only one person, from whom we anticipate help, insists on maintaining the lie. Inbred tact and our own distress hamper us in contradicting that person. How much more difficult is it, then, to see through lies when everyone around us takes them for the truth, simply because they themselves are victims of such lies. Thus, yesterday's victims become the opinion-makers and power-brokers of tomorrow.

I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.

Mentira nenhuma, afinal, era mais violenta que as mentiras que nós contamos a nós mesmos e aí desgraçadamente temos que continuar contando para segurar aquele vômito todo no estômago, comendo a gente por dentro.

Some people tell lies about the past. Her dad tells lies about the future. He is always telling a new story.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

Have you ever stood still while someone lied to you? If so, you know the sickening feeling. Your brain wants to make the situation less disturbing, and oh, how you want to convince yourself the liar is telling the truth.

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.

Sometimes pretty lies win the day. But sometimes ugly truths cut deeper.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.

Ig laughed at that. The things people said. The effortless way they lied, to others, to themselves.

and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him,'" the voice replied.

The religious upbringing that most people go through, and its association with Western religion, is all based on lies. At some point you either wake up and realise [that] they are lies, or you continue in a fog. I realised I had been lied to and wanted to know the truth.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.

We're not friends, Ms. Williams. You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.

They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, 'I'm starving to death! Here, eat my only bakery bun!' 'I can't walk, I'm paralyzed, but still I see the bright side of life, happy happy!' A Little Princess and Pollyanna, let me tell you, they are selling you a pack of ugly lies.

ME, JOHNNY, MIRREN, and Gat. Gat, Mirren, Johnny, and me. The family calls us four the Liars, and probably we deserve it.

I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family." "They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.