I looked at her. Sheila was my girl–the girl I wanted–and wanted for keeps. But it wasn’t any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It...

We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

It’s not God who doesn’t care, it’s us

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky’s name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the...

Just because someone says it is so doesn’t mean it is.

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

That’s the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores–when we can ride past them at Fayette and Monroe, car doors locked, our...

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and...

But the lie had to be a good one, because if your lie is badly done it makes everyone feel wretched, liar and lied-to alike plunged into the deepest lackadaisy, and everyone just feels like...

You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it...

If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the religionists. But these “men of God” are victims of the natural course of...

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie […] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

Not if you like lies so much you want to live one

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth

Ronan said, “I’m always straight.”Adam replied “Oh, man, that’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told.

It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person’s trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on...

Life is a lie and only I know the absolute truth.

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is...

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of...

You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell...

Nobody hates being lied to more than a liar.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that’s not loaded down with manure?

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

Don’t be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren’t any good at writing. That fear is normal. I feel it. Most writers who care...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

You know, everything’s a sort of lie, and then you die.

Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive aspects, along with a premeditated structure of torture-enforced lessons. The phenomena was first...

Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!

We’re going to be okay.”Here’s the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it...

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance...

The best lies to tell,” said Jane, “are the ones people want to believe.

I’m tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies!

The wrong information will only lead to deformation

Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity...

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Le mensonge n’a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l’unique privilège des misérables.

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be...

Not all the relationships deserve loving and all the lies worth to regret.

Everyone lies… It may not be about the same thing, but everyone does it. People do it to fit in, people do it to feel civilized, and there are many more reasons. You can be...

Go to the Source of Purity; there you will find the truth. Go to the river of Acheron; there you will find the human truth, it is, however, fed by lies.

These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(…)You turn to them for answers and...