Lies Quotes

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

the lies of centuries, the lies of love, the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

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.

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.

Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories

Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways." ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.

Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Before a secret is told, one can feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.