Lies Quotes

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...

~ Billy Joel

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time

~ John Dewey Speech 1917

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

~ M.l. Stedman

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

~ E.b. Hudspeth

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

~ Charles M. Blow

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

~ Gustavo Gus Larsen

The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their participation. It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.

~ Sarah E. Olson

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

~ Robert Walser

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but can save one's career.

~ Amanda Dewees

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies. ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways. ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

And Jesus began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ and will mislead many.”Here Christ cautions His present and future disciples from being misled, meaning not to be deceived, caused to err from the truth, or lead to form a wrong judgment. It is important for us to note that we can be deceived if we heed deceivers, instead of Christ Jesus. Many claim and will claim to know Him, but will point us to themselves, to traditions, to lies, and anything instead of to Christ! We must be careful.

~ Billy Witt

...I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind

~ Amy Tan

Life is a lie and only I know the absolute truth.

~ Lydia Supple

The trick here is arbitrary word assignment: that is, any violence engaged in by ourselves or our friends is ipso facto retaliation and counter-terrorism; whatever the enemy does is terrorism, irrespective of facts.’10 We might say, then, that the golden rule of state violence is: terrorism is what they do, and counter-terrorism is what we do. As Orwell himself observed in his essay, ‘Notes on Nationalism’: ‘Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage – torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by “our” side.

~ David Cromwell

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

~ Kenneth Eade

Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.

~ P.d. James

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

~ Shannon L. Alder

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

~ Marty Rubin

The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.

~ Katie Dale

Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.

~ Cora Carmack

Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies?

~ C.j. Cherryh

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

~ Orrin Woodward

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author's words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb or saying such as: He who is good to others will be happy. But this is not true. It is a lie. The spectator, perhaps, is content. The spectator likes easy truths. But we are not there to please or pander to the spectator. We are here to tell the truth.

~ Jerzy Grotowski

When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.

~ Brian Spellman

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.

~ Adam Snowflake

Next minute you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong,’ he said softly. ‘One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they’re hiding huge grievances.

~ Lindsay Armstrong

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

~ Brian Spellman

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.

~ Christopher Buehlman

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

~ Chris Campanioni

I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.

~ Carla H. Krueger

I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.

~ John Dean

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

~ Jane Rogers

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem.

~ Marcel Proust

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

~ George Horace Lorimer

Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumous credit for having got the three great questions of the 20th century essentially 'right.' Orwell was an early and consistent foe of European imperialism, and foresaw the end of colonial rule. He was one of the first to volunteer to bear arms against fascism and Nazism in Spain. And, while he was soldiering in Catalonia, he saw through the biggest and most seductive lie of them all—the false promise of a radiant future offered by the intellectual underlings of Stalinism.

~ Christopher Hitchens