Lies Quotes
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
"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."
"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."
"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."
"A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent."
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
"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."
"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."
"Nothing is ever certain."
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive."
"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."
"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."
"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."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth."
"I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face."
"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
"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."
"Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used."
"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."
"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"
"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."
"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick"
"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."
"The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort"
"Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows."
"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."
"One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths."
"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."
"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."
"In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him."
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
"The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"
"I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie."
"How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail."
"Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality you’re showing how much you still care."
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