Lies Quotes

Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you're a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity.

~ D.s. Mixell

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.

~ Michael R. French

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were often underrated. Most people Brendan knew couldn't make it through the day without a saucerful of ignorance and a side of lies.

~ Dennis Lehane

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a tooth in a sand pit in Nebraska with no other bones about it, and from that one tooth decided that it was the remains of the missing link. They have queer ideas about age too. They find a fossil and when they are asked how old it is they say they can't tell without knowing what rock it was in, and when they are asked how old the rock is they say they can't tell unless they know how old the fossil is.

~ William Jennings Bryan

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

~ Criss Jami

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

~ Adolf Hitler

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

~ Neil Gaiman

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

~ Criss Jami

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

~ Beth Moore

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

~ Toba Beta

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of th

~ John F. Kennedy

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

~ A.s. King

I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique

~ Catherine Fisher

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

~ Sigmund Freud

Liars make the best promises.

~ Pierce Brown

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

~ Megan Whalen Turner

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Mitch Albom

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

~ Vera Nazarian

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

~ Derek Landy

If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]

~ Thomas Jefferson

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid. -Jo

~ Nicholas Sparks

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

~ Pierre Corneille

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.

~ John Steinbeck

Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of the toothbrush mug? It's like those people who invent a lie as an excuse rather than the truth, even when the truth is better than the lie.

~ Helen Fielding

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.

~ Howard Zinn

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

~ Kim Edwards

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire. Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

~ Michael Grant

A storyteller makes up things to help other people, a liar makes up things to help himself.

~ Daniel Wallace

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

~ Simone Elkeles

His mother? Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. But you're not a- She cut herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she'd almost let slip.Suzy's wedding ring clicked against the steering wheel as she gave it a hard smack. I'm going to kill him! He's been telling that hooker story again, hasn't he?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.

~ Marisa De Los Santos

It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

~ Brandon Sanderson