It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

A lie’s true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after...

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn’t all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

To get what we want we must be subtle as snakes; more deadly, more cunning, more patient, more mean. Think of the serpent, how it slithers through the garden. It’s such a beautiful creature, slow...

The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his last worry.’ Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. ‘Is that...

You speak as if I actually have a soul. As if mine wasn’t ripped from me by lies and betrayal.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: ‘Lies!

Let’s live to believe leaving all lies behind

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one’s pleasure, or one’s honour...

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse....

How ’bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

A person who lies for you can lie to you too.

Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently Trees talk to each other at night.All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose.Tiny...

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i’m Dreamer.

Is it okay to do something wrong if you’re doing it to protect someone who deserves to be helped?””That’s an odd question Is there anything you need to tell me?”but I think sometimes you have...

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of...

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

false convictions” by defense lawyers and political activists deserve far greater scrutiny from the media and the public.journal: Cheit, Ross E. “The Legend of Robert Halsey.” Journal of child sexual abuse 9.3-4 (2002): 37-52.

The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with...

You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.

Magdalena doesn’t ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That’s how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It’s the things you don’t say. That’s what always gives a person away.

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

It’s disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to...

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it’s charms.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would’ve told him I was into cannibalism.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...

Evidence doesn’t always convince people of the truth, […] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty,...

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,…,and he had very red hair.

The heart never lies

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation”.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you...

I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do...

When I consider Life, ’tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:To-morrow’s falser than the former day;Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blestWith...

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

[S]ecrets are like stars. They blaze inside the heart and ultimately could be explosive. But there are two types of secrets. Small secrets, like small stars, will eventually burn out. With time and space they...