Lies Quotes

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

~ Adele Griffin

Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himselfSo our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breatheand it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle

~ Rodney Hall

Lying is the new truth.

~ B. Cameron Lee

Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.

~ Ally Carter

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Ever since that day, I have lived a lie, the lie of living.

~ Lelouch Vi Britannia

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

~ Zadie Smith

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

~ Terry Brooks

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

~ Michael Grant

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action. April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, I believe he may have lied to me!

~ Seanan Mcguire

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

~ Michael Grant

But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn't touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe she's just overreacting. Instead, you just smile and sit with her and say, I understand when really, you don't understand her at all.

~ Dana Reinhardt

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

~ Anita Shreve

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

~ Michelle Sagara West

You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.

~ Howard L. Salter

She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.

~ Francine Pascal

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

~ Agatha Christie

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

~ Mason Cooley

There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

~ David Hewson

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

~ Hope Mirrlees

No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the bricks one by one, and then it appears. It deals its blow and everything crumbles. That’s why it remains intact and incorruptible in time, waiting for its ultimate destiny to be revealed.

~ Stefanos Livos

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

~ Hope Mirrlees

Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father.- Nell

~ Jane Steen

If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.

~ Thea_Zara

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

~ Ken Gire

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: everyone is entitled to know everything. But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People lie to adapt...

~ Lionel Suggs

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear...You are in the city of lies.

~ Arlene J. Chai

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.

~ Lionel Suggs

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

~ Lionel Suggs

You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they've always been tolerant. It's not peculiar to want to sanitize what you did.

~ Ruth Hanna Sachs

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

~ Stefano Benni

For a lie to add piquancy to a story the story would be factual. Fantasy needs no lie to stimulate or excite. But if the factual story is contrived or fallacious then it’s the fantasy that is the lie.Daniel Kemp

~ Daniel Kemp

Through years of experience I’ve discovered that a liar will always look into his drink when telling a lie. But he doesn’t have a drink in a cab, and even if he did I’d have no idea as to whether he were looking into it or not

~ Karl Wiggins

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

~ Robertson Davies

Honor lies in honest toil.

~ Grover Cleveland

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

~ Jim Morrison

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

~ Aristotle

Happiness lies first of all in health.

~ George William Curtis