Lies Quotes

I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pai...

Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed clos...

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out.""Yes, ...

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were...

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too...

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but ...

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woo...

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lie...

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

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

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, ...

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

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "...

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo...

I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran sai...

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to d...

Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.

Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in c...

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is m...

You know I love you. You're the only one.""She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shou...

I love you. You're the only one." She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't hav...

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

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

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it`s not a lie.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, b...

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)

However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness e...

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depen...

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is anti...

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the...

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth conclu...

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from t...

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

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

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

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frog...

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that info...

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. T...

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

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

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one ...

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it ...

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following...

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught...

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that ...

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see....

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the Fre...

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crysta...

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must h...

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ...

Who are you?" the woman said at last."Lyra Silver—""No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do ...

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph W...

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of h...

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to someb...

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. ...

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened...

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceiv...

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a buste...

Freedom lies in being bold.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a lia...

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a li...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one wi...

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.