Lying Quotes
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good.
Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.
Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.
If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.
There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.
The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.
Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.
A survey was done on people who LIE, but the results were unreLIEable
I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.
Stuck in a generation where loyalty is just a tattoo, love is just a quote and lying is the new truth.
What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.
isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?
The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.
Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.
Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.
Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.
A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.
Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.
Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.
They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.
Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.
Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.
Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.