Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself...

Life’s wildest moment—she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

…as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth…

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the...

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the...

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat’s freedomof thepress.

I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don’t believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost....

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

An Important thing : never lie to yourself, for real… worst thing is when you lie to yourself, you just keep doing it and you don’t know.

There goes the girl with the wings,” they say. “The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world.””There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground.”They taunt. They lie. They lie....

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies!

If I say I’ll help you I’ll help you. If I say I’ll kill you I’ll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

…someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I’m a collector of shavings.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action.” April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, “I believe he may have lied to me!

It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the...

I don’t like the word ‘allegorical’, I don’t like the word ‘symbolic’ – the word I really like is ‘mythic’, and people always think that means ‘full of lies’, whereas of course what it really...

There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies.

A mystery is an unknown puzzle to solve like lies and secrets that you need to know. Lies and secrets that are like a cancer in our soul. They eat away what is good and...

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

Liars make the best promises.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most...

…the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone…

If a problem can’t be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.

The right sort of lie, I found, could serve better than the truth.

Isn’t it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don’t believe his lie.

Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on...

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at ‘Shameless’ or ‘House of Lies’. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

I’m so tired of people who can’t be honest. “Beauty is on the inside” Really?? Then why do rich guys & successful guys always end up with beautiful women but they have lousy personalities?.

What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth...

Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a...

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.

But here’s something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn’t touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe...

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can’t cash.

Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity...

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is...

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf,...

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

If someone tells you a lie, they’re not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no...

Seek for truth,you’ll find me;Peek for lies,you’ll blind me

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what’s right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every...

In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?”Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:”I’m a liar by vocation,” he shouted. “I lie with joy! Literature...

utangaç bok” gibiydi güneş bu dönemde. Uzun bir bekleyişten sonra çıkacak gibi olur, başını uzatır, ama evdeki misafirlerden biri tuvaletin önünden geçtiğinde ses çıkarırım diye utanıp hemen geri kaçardı.

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –