Lies Quotes

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

~ David Levithan

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

~ Johnny Rich

These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.

~ Johnny Rich

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

~ Leanne Mechelle

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time — forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

~ Suzy Kassem

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

~ Suzy Kassem

Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

~ Cassandra Clare

It is more disgraceful for a king to tell lies than anyone else.

~ Arrian

The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

~ Jennifer Harrison

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.

~ Danielle Bernock

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

~ Toni Maguire

There are three lies in life,” Sutherland said to his young companion, whose first night this was in the realm of homosexuality and whose introduction to it Sutherland had taken upon himself to supervise. “One, the check is in the mail. Two, I will not come in your mouth. And three, all Puerto Ricans have big cocks,” he said.

~ Andrew Holleran

You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.

~ Arthur K. Flam

Never lie to the one who wants you safe.

~ Damond Jiniya

Trauma is personal.

~ Danielle Bernock

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

~ Gary Hopkins

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

~ Cynthia Bond

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

~ Gerry Spence

I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

~ Margaret Atwood

I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.So which option did you choose, Mr.President?

~ Sambhav Ratnakar

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

~ Dean Koontz

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little.He meant a liar.

~ Jasper Fforde

Nobody hates being lied to more than a liar.

~ Steve Maraboli

It was too easy to lie, when you’d practised it a few times. It was hard the first time, but once it flow from your tongue like the perfect summer breeze, and everybody seemed to believe in it, it became mundane. You’d just have to program it first, copy and paste the same old sentences all over again.

~ Diyar Harraz

I'm great at lying to myself.

~ Karina Halle

Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk It tells , who U R

~ Tushar Upreti

Mr. Parker’s mouth dropped open like a toddler had crawled under his desk and whacked him in the giblets. I tried not to giggle as he slowly closed his mouth and stood up from behind his desk. I expected him to start shouting obscenities about the stupidity of pre-marital sex, but he walked around and closed the door behind me. I could practically hear the phone call he would make to my mother in my head. “Connor, I hope I don’t need to give you a lecture about how dangerous it is for someone of your age to engage in such activities?” “No, sir. Trust me when I say, it was an accident and won’t be happening again for as long as I live my life as a single person. Such activities are best left to those with more experience and have joined their lives in holy matrimony.” I fought hard to keep my face sincere and deadpan. I didn’t know what the hell was going on with me, but I liked it. Not only had I come up with the most unbelievable lie in the universe, I sounded heartily sorry for it too.

~ Sean Hayden

And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, “Lies.” Excerpt from Lies

~ Angela B. Chrysler

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

~ Christian Clason

We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing and idea is a lie. I do not function properly. I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.

~ Tahereh Mafi

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

~ William Shakespeare

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

~ T.f. Hodge

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

~ Donald L. Hicks

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.

~ Jennifer Mathieu

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

~ Anne Perry