Lie Quotes
554 quotes
"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
"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."
"The best lies were always mixed with truth."
"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."
"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."
"If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together."
"I never lie,"I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
"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."
"Nine out of ten politicians are thieves. The tenth politician is a liar, and the one who conducted the survey."
"I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie."
"We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."
"She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it."
"Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago."
"If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence."
"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."
"Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth."
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood."
"For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them"
"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."
"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."
"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste."
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true."
"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."
"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."
"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..."
"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."
"And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie."
"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."
"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF."
"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."
"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."
"Lie to me. Just to console my soul."
"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."
"The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach."
"Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup."
"Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true."
"Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become existent for the human being."
"Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie."
"Only God can tell a truly plausible lie."
"The truth that we hide is naked, the one that we flaunt is so well dressed!"
"Smell shit when one's bragging."
"That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself."
"The lie, of course, is more interesting."
"My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs."
"I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes."
"Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth."
"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'..."
"Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth."
"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
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