The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

You did listen.” He sat back, nodding his head. “Okay, then. Now tell me what you really thought.””I told you. It was interesting.””Interesting,” he said, “is not a word.””Since when?””It’s a placeholder. Something you use...

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

What you see will hurt you; what you don’t see will hurt you.

Words stick, even when we don’t want them to.

Lying is the new truth.

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

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I’d always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

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

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.

A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood...

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

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their...

There are no secrets.’ The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. ‘None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is...

I had a dream I bought a popcorn maker that would pop pennies into cornuts, so I bought stock in corn wow was I nuts. That’s what my therapist said. He is just plain nuts...

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

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.

People believe what they are told.

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

Cathy’s lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or...

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

We met less than a week ago and in that time I’ve done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance…all I want is to protect...

We’re LIVING.

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!

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

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from many different and largely unrelated families had been taken into the care of Cleveland County...

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is...

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or...

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.

Lies is lying the memory from the truth

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true

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

De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco...

Emma, la maestra de la mentira. La reina del “Mi hermano es normal”, “Mi hermano es tímido”. Mi hermano es muy enfermizo, tiene alergias, mononucleosis, intoxicación alimentaria, la gripe. Y la mentira más grande y...

Never lie to the one who wants you safe.

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.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that’ll save your ass.

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth...

Luz’s manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn’t that she made things up, strictly speaking–only that facts were merely a point of departure for...