Lies Quotes

Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network illustrate how the network is maintained, not through any central conspiracy, but by an interlocking network of academic relationships, grants, conferences, and military appointments. Some doctors in the network were not funded directly by the CIA or military, but their work was of direct relevance to mind control, non-lethal weapons development, creation of controlled dissociation and the building of Manchurian Candidates.

~ Colin A. Ross

When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.

~ Munia Khan

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

~ Criss Jami

Did you forget who I am? Finding out the lies of men is my specialty. -Vashti

~ Jaha Knight

It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around.

~ Astrid Yrigollen

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

~ Sidney Sheldon

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

~ Nopain

You know 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 sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

~ Margaret Atwood

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

~ Arzum Uzun

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies.

~ David Levithan

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

~ Maria Semple

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

~ Gary D. Schmidt

Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems.

~ Amit Kalantri

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the “prison cell” that those lies create.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

~ Adam Johnson

We're going to be okay.Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.

~ Ally Carter

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

~ Thomas Mann

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

~ Sarah Kane

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

~ Abbi Glines

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

~ Jacqueline Carey

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

~ James Salter

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

~ Gillian Flynn

Here’s the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too self-involved to ever care about anyone else besides herself. I’m the rebel. The bad twin. I am Tally—the loner, the party of one. The love and leave ‘em prototype. Heartless. That is me. I have no time for romance, flowers, or relationships. I like one-night stands with plenty of sex and no promises of a future. I like the lies I tell. I’m comfortable in telling them…most of the time. This is me.

~ Katherine Owen

I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening to them cry and begging me to stop it.'My voice is slow and steady like a freight train at night.'I was too young, and we were always told that they'd put us in foster homes where people would rape us if we ever said anything. So we explained away the bruises and my mom wore big sunglasses whenever she left the house. And we invented car accidents if the bruising was too bad to cover with make-up.

~ Emily Andrews

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

~ J.g. Ballard

Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

~ Rich Disilvio

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

~ Sidney Knight

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

~ Chelsea Handler

A person who lies for you can lie to you too.

~ Pratik Akkawar

People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

~ Leah Raeder

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say “how very interesting” and change the subject.

~ Dick Francis

no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

~ Jo Nesbø

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

~ Peter Atkins

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

~ Dick Francis