Lies Quotes

Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is greatest thing, they persist in saying this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do (...It's a lie to say that love is greatest, what people want is hate - hate, and nothing but hate. And in the name of righteousness and love they get it...If we want hate, let us have it - death, murder, torture, violent destruction- let us have it: but not in the name of love.

~ D.h. Lawrence

99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your own expense.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gestures, high-pitched laughter. The way they walk and talk and scream or try to kill (themselves or you) if you laugh back at them. Yes, they've got to be watched. For the time comes when they try to kill, then disappear. But others are waiting to take their places, it's a long, long line. She's one of them. I too can wait—for the day when she is only a memory to be avoided, locked away, and like all memories a legend. Or a lie ...

~ Jean Rhys

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

~ Criss Jami

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

~ Nancy Farmer

PuppeteerJust because you tell me I'm beautifulAnd that I'm worth your whileYou expect me to feel like the luckiest girl in the worldSo I should lower my head, talk less, smile more, be more polite, bend to your will, kiss your feet?I will snap those stringsStrap on my six inch heelsI will be thunder and lightning and fire and every nightmare you are afraid ofI will be everything you can't handleWhen you wake up choking on your kool-aid of lies, you will not forget the fierce untamable tempestuous wave that swept you away

~ Evy Michaels

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

~ Anne Lamott

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

~ Leo Tolstoy

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

~ E.m. Forster

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning either things or persons.

~ Adam Smith

Honey, she says, honest ain’t the half of what I’m not.

~ Alden Bell

We all should practice to tell the truth and keep our promises, rather than trying to calculate possible pleasures, pains, and outcomes of our sayings in certain circumstances. Because we know that in general telling the truth and keeping promises will result in more happiness than lying and breaking promises.

~ Prabidh

[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

~ C.s. Lewis

Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?

~ Brian Clevinger

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

~ Joyce Rachelle

A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

~ Fred Munoz

I am. I’m rude because I don’t conform to society’s standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don’t believe in hiding behind words that aren’t truthful. I’m an impatient man. I don’t beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won’t lie to you.

~ Whitney Barbetti

A lie has no power, until you believe it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.

~ Alex Haditaghi

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

~ Rebecca Scherm

Don't ever be honest about who you are—and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.

~ Andrea Cremer

Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.

~ Tony Curl

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

~ Marissa Meyer

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. 

~ Stefan Emunds

But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Secrets are lies by another name.

~ Michael Morpurgo

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

~ Giacomo Casanova

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart, anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

~ Shannon L. Alder

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don’t condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.

~ Steve Maraboli

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?LENORE: I would kill for a shower.

~ David Foster Wallace

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

~ A.w. Tozer