Lies Quotes

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

Jennifer Donnelly

Time turns our lies into truths.

Gene Wolfe

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

Shaun Jeffrey

You cannot believe everything you hear

Jude Morgan

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Mason Cooley

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?

Sarah Slean

One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.

John H. Alexander

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Jeffrey Eugenides

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Tim O'Brien

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.

Courtney M. Privett

Nothing is ever certain.

Alice Sebold

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Chuck Klosterman

The Truth is different than human truths; they are like LIGHT.Truths are like a color, absolute and true, while THE TRUTH is all colors and still colorless; the duality of Truth.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St Vincent De Paul

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

Ana Monnar

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George R.R. Martin

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

Toba Beta

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass 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, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky