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Quotes About Lies

Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.
~ Rick Wilson
Throw out the diet books and magazine articles that offer you the false hope of losing weight quickly, easily, and permanently. Get angry at the lies that have led you to feel as if you were a failure every time a new diet stopped working and you gained back all of the weight. If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet might be lurking around the corner, it will prevent you from being free to rediscover Intuitive Eating.
~ Evelyn Tribole
Some quick to arm,some for adventure,some from fear of weakness,some from fear of censure,some for love of slaughter, in imagination,learning later…some in fear, learning love of slaughter;Died some, pro patria,non "dulce" non "et decor"…walked eye-deep in hellbelieving in old men's lies, the unbelievingcame home, home to a lie.
~ Ezra Pound
mendaciously
~ Faith Martin
prevaricating
~ Faith Martin
Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.
~ Fawn M. Brodie
Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
~ Faye Weldon
Era la peregrinación de los martes, devota, insulsa, mentirosa. Venían a pedir favores. ¿Por qué esta manía de pedir y pedir? Yo no soy de aquí. Me avergüenzo de esta raza limosnera.
~ Fernando Vallejo
La humanidad necesita para vivir mitos y mentiras. Si uno ve la verdad escueta se pega un tiro.
~ Fernando Vallejo
I think a lie with a purpose is wan iv th' worst kind an' th' mos' profitable.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's judgment if we become accustomed to glamorizing war, excusing lies, and parading our might and dominance.
~ Fleming Rutledge
I think his lies hurt most of all because they stripped down the possibility of belief. I guess that's what betrayal does.
~ Florence Falk
The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Les contes de fées n'existent que dans les contes de fées. La vérité est plus décevante. La vérité est toujours décevante, c'est pourquoi tout le monde ment.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Tõde valmistab alati pettumuse, sellepärast kõik valetavadki.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Basmele nu exista decat in basme. Adevarul este mai dezamagitor. Adevarul este intotdeauna dezamagitor, de-aia minte toata lumea.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Through the bars he had laid eyes on a face like glass, somebody who could not lie without it being obvious. And he had seen a way of using that very fact to tell the greatest of lies.
~ Frances Hardinge
Lies can be wrung out of a witness as easily as truth. Yes, after a few hours with the Enquiry's . . . instruments, I am sure she will be willing to swear that she had swallowed an antidote, or indeed that she had flown to the moon if that would make the pain stop. But, here and now, you can see she is telling the truth. There was no betrayal. There was no poison. There was no murder.
~ Frances Hardinge
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
~ Billy Graham
Don't be deceived by Satan and his lies. Instead, stay close to Christ—because the closer you are to Him, the farther away you are from the devil.
~ Billy Graham
Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.
~ Billy Graham
With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
~ Billy Graham
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
~ Bob Geldof
Disclaimer: While Pastafarianism is the only religion based on empirical evidence, it should also be noted that this is a faith-based book. Attentive readers will note numerous holes and contradictions throughout the text; they will even find blatant lies and exaggerations. These have been placed there to test the reader's faith.
~ Bobby Henderson