Lies Quotes

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth

Madison Reil

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

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

What is to absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Robert Jordan

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder

William Shakespeare

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Cameron Conaway

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

Anne Lamott

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

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

Radiohead

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

Wm. Paul Young

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

Bisco Hatori

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

Andre P. Brink

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

Criss Jami

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Henry Miller

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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Jennifer Salaiz

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment.

W. Somerset Maugham