Quotes About Lies

Now he knew why humans had stopped coming to Fantastica and why none would come to give the Childlike Empress new names. The more of Fantastica that was destroyed, the more lies flooded the human world, and the more unlikely it became that a child of man should come to Fantastica. It was a vicious circle from which there was no escape. Now Atreyu knew it. And so did someone else: Bastian Balthazar Bux.

Und nichts gibt größere Macht über die Menschen als die Lüge. Denn die Menschen, Söhnchen, leben von Vorstellungen. Und die kann man lenken. Diese Macht ist die Einzige, was zählt.

Nulla dà maggior potere sugli uomini che la menzogna. Perché gli uomini, figliolo, vivono di idee. E quelle si possono guidare come si vuole.

The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Marxism offers the kind of subversive truths that cause fear and trembling among the high and mighty, those who live atop a mountain of lies.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you. - Diana

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

Satan, the father of lies. He uses "harmless" white lies to get us started in this insidious habit. Lies pave the way for greater temptations to come. Satan whispers that a white lie is "consideration" for other people. We bend ourselves to the world instead of to Jesus who is the Truth.

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it.

La verdad está tan obnubilada en este tiempo y la mentira tan sentada que, a menos de amar la verdad, ya no es posible conocerla.

How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. —Winston Churchill

When you're in the White House," Butterfield said, "everyone lies. You can sort of get feeling immune.

He's a professional liar.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief. --from The Couriers, written 4 November 1962

Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is he who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise-T.L. Peacock