Lies Quotes

Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

~ Michael Grant

Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

~ Charles Martin

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?

~ Charles Yu

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

~ Kate Atkinson

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

~ George R.r. Martin

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

~ Tom Holt

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

~ Ambrose Bierce

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

~ Walter Lippmann

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

~ Brad Meltzer

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

~ Sophie Hannah

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

~ Dashiell Hammett

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

~ Claudia Gray

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

~ Charles M. Blow

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

~ Albert Einstein

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

~ Harper Lee

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

~ Kristen Ashley

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

~ Samuel Butler

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

~ Gregory Hill

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

~ Jane Wagner

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

[S]ecrets are like stars. They blaze inside the heart and ultimately could be explosive. But there are two types of secrets. Small secrets, like small stars, will eventually burn out. With time and space they lose their importance and simply vanish. No harm done. But big secrets, like massive stars, with time and constant fear grow stronger, creating a gravitational pull that eventually ... When they get so big, they become a black hole.

~ Jennifer Jabaley

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

~ Lindsey Leavitt

You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.

~ Clive Barker

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.(on Lillian Hellman)

~ Mary Mccarthy

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

~ Lacey Thorn

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

~ Ian Mcdonald

Lying is a full time occupation, even if you tell just one, because once you tell it, you're stuck with it. If you want to do it right, you have to visualize it, conjure the graphics, tone, and sequence of action, then relate it purposefully in the midst of seemingly spontaneous dialogue. The more actual the lie becomes to the listener, the more actual it becomes to the teller, which is scariest of all. Some people really get to believing their own lies.

~ Hilary Thayer Hamann

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

~ Philip K. Dick

What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter.

~ Tim Kreider

But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

~ Anne Rice

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.

~ Susan Bennett

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?

~ Iwan Goll

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

~ Suzy Kassem