Lies Quotes

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

~ Ana Monnar

Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

~ Criss Jami

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

~ Seth Adam Brown

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

~ T.f. Hodge

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

~ St. Vincent De Paul

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.

~ Shaun Jeffrey

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

~ Cassandra Clare

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.

~ George R.r. Martin

Eyes shows lies.

~ Toba Beta

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

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

~ Santosh Kalwar

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

~ Molly Ringwald

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

~ Holly Black

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.

~ Lily Tomlin

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

~ Charlotte Armstrong

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.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

~ Marisha Pessl

You cannot believe everything you hear

~ Jude Morgan

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'.

~ William Golding

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

~ Tanya Huff

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.

~ Ingmar Bergman

the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.

~ Turcois Ominek

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

~ Cassandra Clare

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.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

~ Holly Black

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

~ Cameron Conaway

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

~ Dean Koontz

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

~ Tacitus

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

~ Robert Jordan

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

~ Suzy Kassem

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

~ Criss Jami

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

~ Bisco Hatori

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

~ Halldór Laxness

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

~ Isabel Fonseca

The truth doesn't get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That's probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might as well get paid for it.

~ Paula Stokes

If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.

~ Suzy Kassem

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides