Quotes About Lies

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

the hardest lies to live with are the ones we tell ourselves. And when we actually start to believe them... well, at that point, there's no hope.

The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

El encierro de la verdad es cómplice de la mentira.

I am a soldier of Allah, but a great admirer of Winston Churchill. And it was Churchill who said that in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

Kebohongan bukan cuma berlawanan dengan kebenaran, tetapi juga sering saling bertentangan di antara mereka sendiri.

Before all that long, you start telling those near to you that you went on interviews that turned out sorry when factually you never even made the phone call.

Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a volume of ambitious lies that he called his life, came in the door and laughed.

Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'

When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or at least Plato as summarized for her: that there was something dishonest about it and that he was right to want to banish the poets. What she mean't, she told me, was that the only reality was life, real life, and that these beautiful versions were lies and she no longer had patience for it.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie" it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power. It was lies, deceptions, self-interest, and self-aggrandizement: suitable work only for the mad and the venal and the naïve.

All writing is lies. Good writing is lies skillfully told.

There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.

A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.

I only have two fingers left. I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers. That is the truth. We are evil. They are kids. We are evil.

The legends of heroic men protecting helpless women turn out to be lies and, worse, propaganda intended to encourage women to embrace their helplessness.