Quotes About Lies

Todos mienten, me dije, todos se esfuerzan, todos esconden algo, tal vez lo mismo: el miedo, la impotencia, la soledad, la muerte. En mayor o menor medida, todos han de convivir con eso. Yo también mentía: sonreía, aceptaba y besaba y no hablaba de mis frustraciones. A veces, me derrumbaba o vivía al borde del derrumbamiento. Todos lo hacían.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.

Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies.

It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!

All true? I think autobiographers are big liars.

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

Thomas Slater says that modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.

You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you—that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else.

We're not the ones making all the false promises, then getting caught in an obvious lie or with our fingers in the till. Maybe that's why they call them "the fortunes of war." They can be quoted on the stock exchange.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Lies often spread faster than the Truths. Thus, don't be quick to believe everything that you hear. Unless and until it is proven beyond reasonable doubt. -Emeasoba George

The truth we do not always pursue; but when we do so passionately, violently, we hate whatever is expression, whatever derives from words and forms, all the noble lies, even further from the truth than the vulgar ones.

The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lies he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhaust illusion.

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

It had ceased to bother me that Michele didn't believe a word that I said. It gave me the liberty to lie whenever I chose.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.