Quotes About Lies

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.