Lies Quotes

Now, it’s been a while since I had to tell this, so a few of the finer points may not connect as well as they should, but the story will bear the weight. That’s the beauty of the truth: put all together, it makes sense even if the parts might not.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.

~ Stephanie Oakes

I can overlook the lie, what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

~ Fritz Leiber

I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.

~ Charles F. Glassman

There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.

~ Kaede Lazares

Telling one lie begets another lie that begets another lie and before you know it that lie has grandkids, great grandkids and keeps growing. It’s like Lay’s Potato Chips, you can’t tell just one!

~ Sanjo Jendayi

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

~ Roger Zelazny

Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?

~ Steve Maraboli

We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Idea 721. Lies always have a purpose, but a truth has no such compulsion! The very purpose of lies is that they have to be told somewhere. Otherwise there arises no necessity to create them. The truth exists as it is, only some confess and others do not.

~ Thiruman Archunan

As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

~ Jessica Khoury

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

~ Cortney S. Warren

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.

~ Anne Ursu

the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

~ Charles Bukowski

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.

~ Suzy Kassem

There's 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real asshole is despite what you were told.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

Hammer the lies! Nail the truth. ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.

~ Seanan Mcguire

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.

~ Elena Ferrante

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

~ James Rozoff

The freedom of our people is more important!” Julie says fiercely. “We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!”Jack just smiles at her. “That’s a nice lie to believe,” he says.

~ Beth Revis

I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom’s answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other.“Oh, of course!” Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. “How could I have forgotten?”And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don’t know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not.

~ Beth Revis

Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It might've started as a lie, Faith, but it sure as hell didn't end as one. I might not have been real to you, and that's fine. But you have to know... you were real to me. His voice dropped so low I could barely hear him. It was real to me. It's still real. The realest fucking thing I've ever felt.

~ Julie Johnson

Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.

~ Brad Meltzer

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

~ Holly Black

How do you swallow the truth after a diet of lies?

~ Gennifer Albin

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Companions were not allowed to lie. I don’t know why. I had tried a few times when I was young to get Benjamin to lie, and he never could. As we got older, I tried experiments, attempting to find a way for him to lie. Lies of omission, white lies, whoppers. Nothing. He couldn’t lie. My father told me that they were programmed that way. He seemed kind of proud about that. And now, I hoped, that would save my life.

~ Erma I Talamante

A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth is for life, lies are for entertainment.

~ M Chapman

One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.

~ Steven Magee

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.

~ James Patterson

In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

~ Ashwin Sanghi