Quotes About Lies

The body of truth has a much larger data base than the conscience of lies.

Lies don't end relationships the truth does.

Initially, the truth may hurt, but lies hurt always.

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth, " he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.

If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind.

It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that--if he is any kind of liar at all--he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own.

luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They'd

It was the autobiography of a man who could not face himself, an elaborate system of evasion and lies unredeemed by the artistic virtue of self-betrayal.

People lie, the president lies, corporations lie and cheat.…The world is ugly and not many people are willing to stand up to it anymore.

Un juicio es un concurso de mentiras. Y en la sala todo el mundo lo sabe.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they'll make of you? Maybe you'll help them to persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

Nur Momo konnte so lange warten und verstand was er sagte. Sie wußte, daß er sich so viel Zeit nahm, um niemals etwas Unwahres zu sagen. Denn nach seiner Meinung kam alles Unglück der Welt von den vielen Lügen, den absichtlichen, aber auch den unabsichtlichen, die nur aus Eile oder Ungenauigkeit entstehen.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.