Lies Quotes

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

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

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

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

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

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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 a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

Even coal shimmers in the light

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.