Lie Quotes

"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

Criss Jami

"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."

Jarod Kintz

"The best lies were always mixed with truth."

Sarah J. Maas

"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

"I always look like I’m lying. I was born with a politician’s face. You’ll know I’m in love when I have a Vote For Me look in my eyes."

Jarod Kintz

"If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together."

Jarod Kintz

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

Anne Rice

"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."

Jarod Kintz

"Nine out of ten politicians are thieves. The tenth politician is a liar, and the one who conducted the survey."

Jarod Kintz

"I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie."

Ana Monnar

"We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."

Patrick Ness

"She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it."

Jarod Kintz

"Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago."

Jarod Kintz

"If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence."

Toba Beta

"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

Suzy Kassem

"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."

Jeanette Winterson

"Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth."

Jarod Kintz

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood."

Aldous Huxley

"For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them"

Seth Adam Brown

"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."

H.L. Mencken

"Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything."

Neil Gaiman

"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true."

Demosthenes

"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."

George R.R. Martin

"They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it."

Jeff Lindsay

"There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter..."

Israelmore Ayivor

"To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies."

Harry M. Collins

"And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie."

T.A. Miles

"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."

Amit Kalantri

"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF."

Paulo Cohelo

"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."

Suzy Kassem

"It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head."

Thrity Umrigar

"Lie to me. Just to console my soul."

Jarod Kintz

"Relative truths can also be absolute.Relative absolute truths are like two people looking at the same coin, from two different sides, each sees a different truth and presumes they are looking at the same coin, and yet neither side can see the third side."

Caesar J. B. Squitti

"The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach."

Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

"Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true."

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become existent for the human being."

Marieta Maglas

"Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie."

Bianca Scardoni, Inception

"Only God can tell a truly plausible lie."

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies

"The truth that we hide is naked, the one that we flaunt is so well dressed!"

Abhijit Kar Gupta

"Smell shit when one's bragging."

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself."

Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

"The lie, of course, is more interesting."

John Irving

"My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs."

Tracy Ames

"I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes."

Cassandra Clare

"Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth."

Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

"All women are lifelong members of the Secret Service...So, if you must lie, better make sure you cover your tracks because there is no such thing as a 'dumb blonde'..."

Virginia Alison

"Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth."

Marisha Pessl, Night Film

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

Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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