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Quotes About Lies

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
~ Martha Gellhorn
My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.
~ Drake
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
~ Clement of Alexandria
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
~ Harlan Coben
Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.
~ Eartha Kitt
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
~ Willie Brown
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
~ Diogenes
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
~ Winston Churchill
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
~ R. D. Laing
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
~ Al David
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
~ Orson Scott Card
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
~ Franz Kafka
All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
~ Aminatta Forna
Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.
~ Vaclav Havel
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
~ Michael Jackson
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
~ Cesare Pavese
When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.
~ Grace Slick
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
~ Rich Mullins
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
~ Mark Twain
The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
~ Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.
~ Kevin Hart