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Quotes About Lies

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.
~ Karen Marie Moning
One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.
~ Marilyn Manson
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
~ Terry Pratchett
Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
~ Ariana Franklin
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
~ Karl Barth
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Extras
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
~ Simon Van Booy
My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.
~ Christopher Titus
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
~ Sophocles
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.
~ Rick Yancey
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
~ Dorothy Salisbury Davis
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
~ Anne Ursu
Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.
~ Anthony D. Williams
It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.
~ Kenneth Lay
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
The truth just happens - lies take time to make.
~ Michael Cudlitz
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
~ Jonathan Maberry