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Quotes About Lies

I'm always truthful as well. So full of truth, in fact, that sometimes it squeezes the lies right out my lips. There isn't a place for them inside, you see.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft," Kaladin said. "It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them." Teft
~ Brandon Sanderson
Then we shall do an evaluation. Answer truthfully an do not exaggerate, as I will soon discover your lies. Feign no false modesty, either. I haven't the patience for a simperer.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Then we shall do an evaluation. Answer truthfully and do not exaggerate, as I will soon discover your lies. Feign no false modesty, either. I haven't the patience for a simperer.
~ Brandon Sanderson
That's the credit she had given to religion: lies that made people feel better.
~ Brandon Sanderson
bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. Harry G. Frankfurt, Professor Emeritus, Yale University (From his book, On Bullshit)
~ Brene Brown
Trusting what a person says is always a risk. The truth is always provisional, while lies are often solid.
~ Henning Mankell
Después de tantos años como político había comprendido que lo único que quedaba era la mentira. La verdad disfrazada de mentira o la mentira encubierta de verdad.
~ Henning Mankell
prevaricated
~ Henry James
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
~ Henry Miller
A good lie reveals more than the truth can ever reveal.
~ Henry Miller
All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some of that, I guess I would be richer, I might not have become a Communist.
~ Franjo Tudjman
I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about it. It's been the same old thing for years and years: a bunch of females around you, nice cars and money. I wanted people to know what the good life actually is and challenge a lot of the lies that we're told.
~ Trip Lee
I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
~ Tyler Hamilton
Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it's an obvious lie to justify the pumping of billions of dollars into the belly of an ever-voracious aerospace industrial complex. And yes, of course space is dangerous.
~ Rick Tumlinson
I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
~ Ted Yoho
In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
~ Nick Vujicic
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
~ Xun Kuang
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
~ Fidel Castro
The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact.
~ Maria Ressa
People only lie because they are afraid of the truth
~ Madison Reil
Me truthful... you mendacious.. !!
~ Abhijeet Sawant
If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?
~ Michael Duncan
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
~ Jenna Alatari