Quotes About Lies

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Todo el mundo mentía. Unas mentiras maravillosas,desenfrenadas,optimas,desmedidas,entusiastas.

Todas estas conversaciones eran mentiras basadas en un deseo único e imposible: parecer normales. O, por lo menos, lo bastante normales como para que nos dejaran volver a casa.

Vivimos en una sociedad que ha cambiado el concepto de la negación. La negación va acompañada ahora de la suposición de que es sólo una mentira de conveniencia para ser adaptada en algún momento posterior, cuando se ha negociado una verdad aceptable.

Motel Hell is a black comedy about hypocrisy, about the way in which every person, even serial killers like Farmer Vincent, tell themselves little lies to get through the day. It's easier to do terrible things, one concludes, when you believe you're doing good.

Kaden pointed upstairs. "I am not tired either. Let us converse as well. I know many glorious lies of battle.

El error viene del engaño (decir mentiras)

Secrets become lies, and lies end up destroying you and everyone you care about.

Aristotle, asked what those who tell lies gain by it, replied: That when they speak the truth they are not believed::

What the Faeries touch cannot be trusted, and they tell naught but lies wrapped in the skin of truth. Wolves in wool coats.

Do not believe in angels, Rien Conn, for they are all corrupted by the lies of the Builders, as your forebears were corrupted, too.

The Devil might claim he could not see in human hearts. But Lucifer was, after all, the Prince of Lies. And when those lies went clothed in truth, so much the better.

David had been angry with the Church, the King, himself, the tissues of lies that he'd been raised on. But not with Sebastien, not except briefly and at first, when Sebastien had taught him that the desires David had been raised to consider anathema were not merely a matter of unconfessable groping in filthy alleys, of lewdness and whoring.

The war had made everyone a liar, thought Milan bitterly. The war had made it so that one could not distinguish at all between what was true and what false, between victims and perpetrators, or between perpetrators and perpetrators, or victims and victims.

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

I shall ask forgiveness for having fed on lies. - Farewell