Lies Quotes - Page 25

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Nothing is ever certain.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of the lie. Therefore, always tell the truth no matter how unpleasant it is.

A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong.

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

Anthnoy T.Hincks

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

Anthony T.Hincks

The body of truth has a much larger data base than the conscience of lies.

Anthony T.Hincks

Windows open out onto the universe around you, but doors will take you to where your imagination lies.

Anthony T.Hincks

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

Anthony T.Hincks

We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Dejan Stojanovic

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Anonymous

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Oliver Goldsmith

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Jeanne Birdsall

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

G.K. Chesterton

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Ashly Lorenzana

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

Toba Beta

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

George R.R. Martin

We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Jennifer Salaiz

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.

Maggie Stiefvater

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

Cassandra Clare

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

Cassandra Clare

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

Cassandra Clare

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Lady Gaga

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Anne Rice

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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