Lying 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."
"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."
"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
"By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying."
"Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up."
"If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now."
"Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies."
"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything."
"No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth."
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
"Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love."
"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."
"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick"
"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"
"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."
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."
"One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths."
"Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
"The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else."
"My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me."
"At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right"
"The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.''Do I look like a liar?''You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women."
"Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still."
"Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth."
"I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny"
"Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth."
"Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential."
"There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality."
"Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back."
"I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world."
"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."
"The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces."
"Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth."
"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
"The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good."
"Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art."
Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
"Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong."
"For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man."
"Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture."
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