Quotes About Lies

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

My my, the cruelest lies are often told without a word My my, the kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

All the fakeness just rolls right off them, maybe because the nonstop sales job of American life has instilled in them exceptionally high thresholds for sham, puff, spin, bullshit, and outright lies, in other words for advertising in all its forms.

wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

While Robertson and the case officers of B1A would be responsible for the day-to-day running of the double agents, the Twenty Committee would manage overall strategy and cook up a diet of harmless truths, half-truths, and uncheckable untruths to feed to the enemy.

All this was lies. It was nasty, baseless, and ridiculous—there was far more evidence of anti-Semitism in the Occupy movement than there was evidence of racism within the Tea Party. But that didn't stop the media from trying. In fact, they and their friends tried so hard to label the Tea Party racist that they stooped to planting faux racists, including faux Nazis, at Tea Parties, just to gin up racial controversy. The Tea Parties threw the infiltrators out.

After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

It was one thing to suggest that Bush had lied America into a war for oil. It was another to speak while Obama was speaking.

You go around, tellin' lies, and now you wanna compromise Whatcha tryin' to do to my heart?

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Lying rides upon debts back.

I think the lies I make the most are in regards to my hopes and intentions for myself. As for lies I tell other people - I will certainly tell lies. When somebody is very ill and looks awful, and you tell them they look nice. Or if you just ate the last cookie, if someone asked me if I ate the last cookie, I would definitely lie about that.

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

I was brought up in a Democrat household. My mom believed the lies she was told, that she needed government to raise her five children.

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

This was my eleventh lie.