…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.

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to...

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a tooth in a sand pit in Nebraska with no other bones about it,...

I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.

Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how...

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

Well…letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to...