Quotes About Lies

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.