Lies Quotes

George Carlin

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Mira Grant

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

S.E. Hinton

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.

William Blake

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

Scott Westerfeld

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.. Carlos
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Amit Kalantri

Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.. Amit Kalantri
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.

Kiki Archer

always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words.

Bryant McGill

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

George Strait

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

Svetlana Alexievich

How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their
How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road with unplaited pigtails? And so that childhood would never again be called war-time childhood.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Philip Pullman

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Radiohead

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

Woody Allen

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Toba Beta

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

Walter Scott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Zoë Marriott

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.. Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people..
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Ally Carter

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Dorothy Allison

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Alice Sebold

Nothing is ever certain.

Ray Bradbury

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

José N. Harris

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

Max Brooks

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

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

Al David

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Lady Gaga

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Khaled Hosseini

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Tim O'Brien

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

William Golding

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

Cameron Conaway

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.

Roman Payne

She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

Diane Duane

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Aljean Harmetz

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Jeanette Winterson

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Agnostic Zetetic

We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the
I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Ernest Hemingway

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Isabella Poretsis

Just because someone says it is so doesn't mean it is.

Carrie Arcos

Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

Arzum Uzun

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Helen Cross

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

Marty Rubin

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

Munia Khan

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Dean Koontz

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Diane Setterfield

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

Laura Dave

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

Bryant McGill

Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.

Zadie Smith

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

Inio Asano

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

Marissa Meyer

We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

George R.R. Martin

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love..
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Vladimir Nabokov

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Ashly Lorenzana

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

G.K. Chesterton

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Miguel De Unamuno

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Terry Pratchett

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

Holly Black

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Khaled Hosseini

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Sara Shepard

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

Terry Pratchett

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Henry Miller

Life's wildest moment-she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Jennifer Salaiz

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Lauren DeStefano

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

David Levithan

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Ana Monnar

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

Milan Kundera

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

Seth Adam Brown

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth-about everything. That will teach them

Pedro Calderón De La Barca

In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it

St. Vincent De Paul

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Ann Landers

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Christine Feehan

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Shaun Jeffrey

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.

George R.R. Martin

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

Toba Beta

Eyes shows lies.

Terry Goodkind

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

George Eliot

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings - much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Santosh Kalwar

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

Holly Black

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Molly Ringwald

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Lily Tomlin

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Giacomo Casanova

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

Marisha Pessl

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Jude Morgan

You cannot believe everything you hear

Tanya Huff

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Ingmar Bergman

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Sergei Lukyanenko

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..."
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.

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