Quotes About Lies

The greatest enemy we have is Satan, and he is called the father of lies. His tactic is to remind us of what we are NOT instead of whose we ARE. —Bianca Juárez Olthoff

He glanced at her. "You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart." The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.

If you want to spot a liar, just remember that concealing the truth is like swallowing a slow-acting poison. It might take a while, but it will get them in the end. —VICTOR FLEMMING I

Whoever of you love life and desire to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Seek peace and pursue it.

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Most of my relatives could start a fight in an empty room and then lie about who won.

When Sagirashvili accused him of propagating anti-Menshevik lies in his Pravda, 'he would grin in a seemingly good-natured way' and explain, in a pre-Orwellian dictum, that a 'lie always has a stronger effect than the truth. The main thing is to

obtain one's objective.' As Stalin later told Molotov, 'Truth is protected by a battalion of lies.

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

Pero claro está que las mentiras más espectaculares en absoluto necesitan ser perfectas. No dependen tanto de la habilidad del embustero como de las expectativas y los deseos del oyente.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

All who love have lied.

Yes. This was home. This home welcomed her as she was, which was unusual in her experience. It was also, and more familiarly, the place where she had to tell the biggest lies.

Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.

A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. —CORDELL HULL, secretary of state to President