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Quotes About Lies

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
~ Walter Scott, Marmion
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
~ Victor Hugo
If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
~ George Orwell, 1984
...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Half
The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark
~ John Connolly, The Unquiet
The truth is not what is told, the truth is hidden beneath several layers of lies what is claimed to be truth. There is only ultimate truth and it it's difficult to uncover it.
~ Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
~ Val Edward Simone
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
~ Val Edward Simone
A lie is the only truth about a liar.
~ Ketan Waghmare
The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.
~ Fred Munoz
So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
~ Deyth Banger
Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.
~ Geoffrey Wood
The truth hurts when you live a life of lies.
~ Habeeb Akande
So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth
~ Ralph Ellison
Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.
~ Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL
~ Nelson M. Lubao
And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...
~ Deyth Banger, ((...)...)...
Prose lies its way to the truth
~ Bert McCoy
Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.
~ DaShanne Stokes
the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.
~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen