Quotes About Lies

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

People don't want to know the truth.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.