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Quotes About Lies

I don't believe the Devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up.
~ Bono
I don't believe the devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up
~ Bono
What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
~ bono quotes ii
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
~ Book of Proverbs
Ndumbe stares at me. Before answering, he wants to know if I woke up on the right side of the bed. Of course, he's going to lie, but he doesn't want to tell the wrong lie. That's his forte.
~ Boubacar Boris Diop
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
~ Brad Meltzer
The Internet make it easy to be deceptive. The Internet makes it easy to be anonymous and to lie and to keep terrible, destructive secrets from your loved ones.
~ Harlan Coben
The minute people fall in love they become liars.
~ Harlan Ellison
The minute people fall in love, they become liars. You'd
~ Harlan Ellison
How'd you like for her to come live with us?" I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
~ Harper Lee
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.
~ Haruki Murakami
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
~ Haruki Murakami
Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.
~ Haruki Murakami
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.
~ Haruki Murakami
One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. -from Heart the Wind Sing
~ Haruki Murakami
Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence. However, if we were constant;y talking year-round, and telling only the truth truth would probably lose some of its value.
~ Haruki Murakami
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
~ Heinlein Robert A.
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.
~ Henning Mankell
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Obama, Bloomberg, and the national gun-ban media frequently exploit tragedy, using fear and lies to sell their agenda to non-gun owners, especially when it comes to election season. This is their traditional playbook.
~ Wayne LaPierre
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.
~ Ron Fournier
RSS is an organization that is trained in spreading lies and creating communal clashes.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.
~ Mauricio Macri
Any awareness of how lies spread must generate a real sensitivity to the fact that most lies believed to be "white" are unnecessary if not downright undesirable.
~ Sissela Bok