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Quotes About Lies

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
~ Katherine Dunn
The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." —
~ Katherine Dunn
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes a gifted ruler to tell just the right lies so they never realize it.
~ Fuyumi Ono
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.
~ G.B. Edwards
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
~ Gunter Grass
When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed, dark places that I might like to visit. People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
An "online presence" is "all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? —
~ Gabrielle Zevin
People tell boring lies about politics, God and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question: What is your favourite book?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
People tell boring lies about politics
~ Gabrielle Zevin
lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
~ Gao Xingjian
the story Lilith told us about being the first wife and daughters of Adam?" "Lies from the pit of Sheol," said Diya. "That She-demon knew that the best lie is patterned after the truth. You conquer a people by conquering their narrative — subverting it. It has been her goal all along to control the world.
~ Brian Godawa
18Reckless words are like the thrusts of a sword, cutting remarks meant to stab and to hurt. But the words of the wise soothe and heal. 19Truthful words will stand the test of time, but one day every lie will be seen for what it is.
~ Brian Simmons
Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
~ Brock Clarke
A house built on lies has a weak foundation.
~ Brom
Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer.
~ Bryan Chapell
To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!
~ Herman Melville
The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.
~ Hesba Stretton
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
~ Hilary Mantel