Lies Quotes

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

Mira Grant

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Dorothy L. Sayers

the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

Sara Shepard

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.

Michael Grant

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Terry Goodkind

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Jeanne Birdsall

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

Richard L Torres

Lying is the new truth.

B. Cameron Lee

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Leo Tolstoy

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

Yiyun Li

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Neil Gaiman

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

Ernest Hemingway

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

Stephen King

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Christopher Hitchens