Lies Quotes

If someone lied to you, and you positively know this is true, you may find delight in telling them they are the most honest person you know; continue flattering them, giving them the most wonderful compliments, including how you're so thankful to have such an honest person in such a deceptive world. But, then again, this may very well make you a liar too.

~ K.r. Royal

It's a lie that matches his desire.

~ Naomi Novik

When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

We dress ourselves up in lies,So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Malachi 3: 8-9 is probably the most misrepresented scripture tithing advocates quote in the Bible. They contend that anyone that does not pay tithe is robbing God and will be cursed. However, Malachi was not speaking to the Jewish nation he was speaking to the priests. The priests were the ones criticized for robbing God and received the curse for failing to follow God’s ordinances. They were withholding the best meats for themselves and offering God “blemished” sacrifices.Pastors that knowingly deceive others by preaching a false tithing doctrine are the real thieves and are no different than the priests that Malachi rebuked. They are blind guides that lead God’s people astray. They have cherry picked certain principles from God’s tithing system and turned it into something that looks nothing like Moses’ design. It is an inequitable system that does not provide for the poor and allow prosperity preachers and false teachers to profit far beyond the members of their congregation.

~ Terrence Jameson

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same means, the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become engrained in Eichmann's mentality. These lies changed from year to year, and they frequently contradicted each other; moreover, they were not necessarily the same for the various branches of the Party hierarchy or the people at large. But the practice of self-deception had become so common, almost a moral prerequisite for survival, that even now, eighteen years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, when most of the specific content of its lies has been forgotten, it is sometimes difficult not to believe that mendacity has become an integral part of the German national character.

~ Hannah Arendt

A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

I'd watched enough TV in the lonely afternoons after school, before there was a cheese shop to go to, to know that there were boys who lied, who knew how to say just the right thing or give you just the right look. Boys who could make you feel a way you thought you didn't deserve to feel.

~ Dana Reinhardt

You will write about that... you will write this and this and this... you gonna do that and that......Promises and promises... leaks in the holes!

~ Deyth Banger

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

~ Dashanne Stokes

All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest.

~ Jeffrey Fry

If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.

~ Traci Chee

I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’ 

~ Tony Schwartz

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

~ Anurag Shourie

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

~ Saul Bellow

Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.

~ Chuck Todd

Before a secret is told, one can feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

~ Robin M. King

[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

~ Homin Hieger

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

~ Glenn Haybittle

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.

~ Alcoholics Anonymous

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

~ Josh Burggraf

There were kind lies. You still look beautiful. I love you. I forgive you.There were frightened lies. Someone else must have taken it. Of course I am Anglican. I never saw that baby before.There were predatory lies. Buy this tonic if you want your child to recover. I will look after you. Your secret is safe with me.Half-lies, and the tense little silences where a truth should have been. Lies like knives, lies like poultices. The tiger's stripe, and the fawn's dusky dapple. And everywhere, everywhere, the lies that people told themselves. Dreams like cut flowers, with no nourishing root. Will-o'-the-wisp lights to make them feel less alone in the dark. Hollow resolutions and empty excuses.

~ Frances Hardinge

Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.

~ Kayla Krantz

[N]o lie can live forever...

~ Bryan Stevenson

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Do you ever wonder, do you, why I loved you for such a long time, and still didn’t really know you?

~ Khadija Rupa

You lied to me,” she said. “I omitted information.” He paused. “Which may be just as deplorable.

~ Hayden Wand

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. There are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay bout the lies.

~ William Paul Young

For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it’s not so difficult to be a saint. It’s something He can demand of any of us, leap.

~ Graham Greene

Just as I'd realize that I couldn't keep lying to her because I was in love with her, She'd realize that you can't love a lie.Preston Drake - Just for Now

~ Abbi Glines

Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me had clearly gained near-universal acceptance. I knew then that, regardless of what transpired here, my home was now lost to me. It wasn’t just that these people would never accept me, more that I would never forgive their gullibility.

~ Anthony Ryan

That will teach a bitch for buying the same dam shoes as mine and for opening a shop on my block...Charli

~ Kim Morris

Bury the shit when you can and fess up if you can't.

~ Margaux Bergen

presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.

~ Gore Vidal

Truth is like a double edged sword.Truth, as in the colors of the rainbow, are truths, not to be confused with THE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, all colors and no single color.The Truth is like a tree, with all its fruit, while truths are like the fruit on the tree, part of the whole; parts of The Truth, half-truths.Truth can be true, yet it can also lie.So the question is does truth lead to THE TRUTH, or do truths lead us to a lie ? To see the difference is the key to the gates of Eden.

~ Caesar J. B. Squitti

I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

~ Amanda Craig