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Quotes About Lies

A lie among the stars Is a comfortable lie.
~ Jose Rizal
Lo que me deprime es ver lo complicado que son los esquemas de la mentira.
~ José Sbarra
There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.
~ José N. Harris
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice
~ Joseph Delaney
I had to assume, of course, that every word Koblenz had told me, including "and" and "the," was a lie. That was a given. But I operated on that assumption most of the time anyway: Washington, D.C., is to lying what Hershey, Pennsylvania, is to chocolate.
~ Joseph Finder
Nadejdzie dzie?, gdy k?amstwa zawal? si? pod w?asnym ci??arem, a prawda ponownie zatriumfuje (Eines Tages werden die Lügen unter ihrer eigenen Last zusammenbrechen, und die Wahrheit wird wieder triumphieren)
~ Joseph Goebbels
Lies bring shadows in which darker things can hide, never fear the truth, however blinding it may be.
~ Erin Hunter
No cat's going to listen to her lies when
~ Erin Hunter
Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow.
~ Erin Hunter
So I swallowed all of the dark ages nonsense they fed me. Some time passed. I grew up a little, and I gradually began to figure out that pretty much everyone had been lying to me about pretty much everything since the moment I emerged from my mother's womb. This was an alarming revelation. It gave me trust issues later in life.
~ Ernest Cline
Io credo a quello che trovo scritto. A voce si dicono un sacco di bugie. Ma quando uno le scrive, allora è vero.
~ Erri De Luca
yo creo en lo que veo escrito. Hablando se dicen un monton de mentiras. Pero cuando uno las escribe es verdad.
~ Erri De Luca
Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave his mouth dressed like truth. He just can't help it.
~ Esi Edugyan
That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.
~ Etgar Keret
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.
~ Etgar Keret
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
~ Etgar Keret
It is wicked to tell a person a lie about God because, if we come to believe the wrong things about God, we will think the wrong things about ourselves, and we will live meanly or badly.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
the lies we want to believe tell us something about ourselves.
~ Eula Biss
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world
~ Euripides
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
~ Ira Sachs
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
~ Minna Antrim
So when you hear these lies about how we can't possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands.
~ Krystal Ball