This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life… is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love… does not conquer all.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn’t exist.

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

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

Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment.

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

Secrets are lies by another name.

My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are...

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we’ve gotBut aren’t they beautiful?

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

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

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

I feel like people are so accustomed to comfort…now in days the truth to things is uncomfortable, so people avoid it. & sugarcoat things into a lie.. Sometimes the truth may be insensitive but I...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

…but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

‘So you’re always honest,’ I said. ‘Aren’t you?’ ‘No,’ I told him. ‘I’m not.’ ‘Well, that’s good to know, I guess.’ ‘I’m not saying I’m a liar,’ I told him. He raised his eyebrows. ‘That’s...

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them...

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

You’re not worthy” is one of them.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it’s the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no...

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this...

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch’s crimeOh I lied, it hasn’t happened yetBut bet you better believe it’s such a habit...

news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like...

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as...

Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies.

You can’t lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon’ tell the truth, or the truth’s gon’ tell on you

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are...

Yeah, it didn’t work like that because lies cannot protect

Very soon she’ll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed...

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

I know it’s a lot. But she can handle it. I’d rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that...

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I’m not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK.

Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect

Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught.

Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she’d probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it...

I love you. You’re the only one.” She isn’t the first woman he’s ever said that to. He shouldn’t have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn’t have treated it like...

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don’t have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.