Lies Quotes

The best lie was always just short of the truth.

~ Roderick Vincent

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

~ Fanny Fern

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the present Soviet generation, and not only to it, Trotsky's life-story is already like an ancient Egyptian sepulchre which is known to have contained the body of a great man and the record, engraved in gold, of his deeds; but tomb-robbers and ghouls have plundered and left it so empty and desolate that no trace is found of the record it once contained. The work of the tomb-robbers has, in this present instance, been so persistent that it has strongly affected the views even of independent Western historians and scholars.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.

~ Kiersten White

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It feels nice to emerge from the lies.

~ Markus Zusak

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

~ A.s. Byatt

Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers.Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definitions of professionalism, integrity, dignity and pride.

~ Angelica Hopes

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits.

~ Marcel Proust

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The truth may hurt but lies kill.

~ Anonomyus

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

~ Sean Patrick Brennan

Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it.

~ Steve Maraboli

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

~ George R.r. Martin

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

~ Jennifer Crusie

The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

~ Jennifer Crusie

If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

~ Bryant Mcgill

I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.

~ Kiersten White

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash.

~ Chip Kidd

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

~ Samuel Butler

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

~ M.r.c. Kasasian

The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who join organizations dedicated to defending people who are accused of child sexual abuse with no screening whatsoever to keep out those who are guilty as charged are likewise not necessarily people engaged in an objective search for the truth. Some of them can and do use deceit, trickery, misstated research, harassment, intimidation, and charges of laundering federal money to silence their opponents.Those of us who are the recipients of bogus lawsuits and frivolous ethics charges and phony phone calls and pickets outside our offices must know more than the research to survive such tactics. We must know something about endurance and about the importance of refusing to be intimidated.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

~ Anna C. Salter

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.

~ Bryant Mcgill

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

~ Charles Dickens

Not all the relationships deserve loving and all the lies worth to regret.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat's watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!Man does not want the truth, and God does not want lies, yet there is no third option.One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing. That's pride. Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Humility!Not all that glitters is gold, and not all gold glitters. Watch, with the eyes, and also with the heart.Just because all things are lawful, don't make them expedient. And because a thing is right doesn't mean it edifies.With Faith, Wisdom comes highly recommended!

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

~ Rob Thomas

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

~ Dianna Hardy

I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful.

~ Quinn Loftis