Lying Quotes - Page 6

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Jacques Derrida

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

In thy foul throat thou liest.

William Shakespeare

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Neal Shusterman

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt

You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic!

Michael Delaware

More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

Frans Kellendonk

Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.

Remember what I said when I led to Omar and the queen?" I bobbed my head, unable to look away from his jewel-like eyed, shining in the darkness...so much like Chorda's. "That was the lie. Good-bye, Lane," he said and then crept into the darkness.

Kat Falls

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Andrzej Sapkowski

The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

Ursula K Le Guin

Yesterday, she shed tears, keeping her head on my shoulders. And I think she's not going to be fine because I know she won't. Because a couple of years back, I wasn't.And when you know that you've fallen hard on a cold ground and are still lying there, what do you tell others who are taking the fall?You close your eyes. You accept to lie there a little longer. But I lie on my bed now, and it's a little too warm today.

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThough leaves are many, the root is one,Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.

Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.

Victoria Schwab

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

David J. Lieberman

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

David J. Lieberman

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

Nikki Sex

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Niko popped a spare slice of bacon in his mouth, chewing it up contentedly. “I hate being a soul, being dead. You know what I hate most about it?”“No sex?” Sophie guessed.“That’s what I hate second most about it. No, what I hate most is—”“That you can’t lie,” Adrian cut in.Niko lifted his eyebrows at him, impressed. “You do know me. Exactly right.”“And no bacon,” Freya added.

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

Natalie Portman

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

Jaleigh Johnson

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me.

If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.

Saim .A. Cheeda

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.

Robert Buettner

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoléon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoléon Bonaparte

To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and "guesses" at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words—just as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its "inventors." All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are—accustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the teachers I had and they all believed me. Maybe this is where the lying about books really began. Where were the checks and balances? I blame the authorities.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.

Marquis de Sade

Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

DaShanne Stokes

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