It’s exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

In the beginning – in the early days – they said, “We are making the world better. When we came to this place there was nothing except forest and wild animals and people who ran...

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so...

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The...

Trauma is personal.

As for her, I’d forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and...

The high is what you crave, what you would kill for… and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it’s to late to stop.

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren’t showing you.

Yet isn’t it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn’t some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it...

You told a half-truth. They’ll say you lie twice when you tell the other half.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

The first rule in life is ‘everybody lies.’ Remember that and you’ll get a lot further.

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

It feels nice to emerge from the lies.

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

No, sir. Trust me when I say, it was an accident and won’t be happening again for as long as I live my life as a single person. Such activities are best left to those...

An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don’t accept it now, despite all the times I’ve seen it proved right.”The common good and the individual good...

What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the...

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: “Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?” And the wolf had replied: “The truth helps me tell you better lies.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain’t it…

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Truth is a risky proposition. It’s the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold...

Everything is fine, nobody is happy…

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

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Lie to yourself, not to someone else

Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think...

Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into...

Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn’t it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah’s father.”- Nell

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the...

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date...

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.

Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths… The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains...

For about four years, I’ve been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates...

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.