Lies Quotes

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)

Women; can't live with em, can't kill em

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.

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

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

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

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

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