Quotes About Lies

Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.' 'Pleased to meet you,' I lied.

the ultimate purpose of the treaties was not fairness and equity but control and containment that enabled white settlement to continue unrestricted and unabated, all legal and extralegal measures necessary to ensure this had to be taken. If bribes had to be offered, lies told, or conditions abrogated in order to meet changing circumstances or to overcome Indian obstinacy, so be it. If

El mentiroso experimentado sabe que la clave del éxito está en fingir bien la ignorancia de ciertas cosas. Por ejemplo, de las consecuencias de lo que está diciendo. Es como hacer que sean los otros los que inventen.

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

la insospechada furia destructora, la incesante ola de mentiras y la incapacidad de los hombres para contener al demonio de la sangre, son los estímulos más adecuados para poner con vivacidad ante los ojos del hombre pensador el problema de lo inconsciente caótico, que dormita inquieto bajo el mundo ordenado de lo consciente.

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

This means nothing," she said. "Less than nothing," he lied. "I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.

Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever.

You speak as if I actually have a soul. As if mine wasn't ripped from me by lies and betrayal.

the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever.

El orgullo, el hecho de creer mentiras sobre uno mismo para aumentar el valor de uno mismo, a menudo era el preludio de una desagradable caída.

I WOULD GO TO ATHENS. FOR IT IS ONLY IN ATHENS THAT I MAY SPEND ALL MORN ARGUING REAL TRUTHS WITH A PHILOSOPHER, ALL AFTERNOON WATCHING CLEVER LIES FROM A DRAMATURG, AND ALL NIGHT DRINKING LIES INTO TRUTHS WITH A SENATOR.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

This vanity had increased with years and assumed a very dangerous form. He became indiscreet, and, more disastrous still, he told lies! The very dead—the honored and irreproachable dead—were not even safe in their graves. It was his revenge for unforgotten slights. He who kisses and tells, he who tells even though he has not kissed—what can be said for him, what should be done to him?

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I had learned that life was a vicious bitch and people were complicated. They lied to themselves.

With a fluency that amazed me lies and treachery streamed from my lips. I was in extreme pain.

Quizá me haya acostumbrado tanto a las mentiras, que la verdad me suena indecentemente falsa. Pero bueno.

sólo una mentira que no estuviera avergonzada de sí misma podía tener éxito. También dijo que nada tenía que ser cierto, pero que todo tenía que sonar como si lo fuese.

Anda, tonto. Ahora haz una mueca de disgusto y mírame como un patito moribundo antes de reclinar tu cabeza en mi hombro para que yo acaricie tus cabellos llenos de electricidad estática. Buscabas una mentira piadosa, ¿verdad? Esperabas que yo te dijera: «¡Contigo seré feliz en cualquier parte, Toran!», o bien, «¡Las mismas profundidades interestelares serían mi hogar, amor mío, teniéndote a mi lado!» Vamos, admítelo.

That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.

I had been assured that, as long as I was still nursing Juan Martín, I'd be safeguarded against another pregnancy, but it turned out to be another of the lies peddled to women at that time.

I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that is their deal: to lie ahead of time. There is zero news value in that.