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.

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth–that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

I looked at Mum and realized — twang! — that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something...

…lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these...

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult….Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth,...

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

As I walk in the lanes of truth escorted by demons of lies and fears.

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we...

La mayor parte del tiempo la mentira es el atajo más corto a la felicidad.

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.

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 –

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we’ve told? (‘Lives’ – the ‘v’ is silent.)

You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s...

“I’m not good enough…” These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present.

His mother?” Gracie couldn’t believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. “But you’re not a-” She cut herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she’d...

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain — appreciated “the glad tidings of great joy.” For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then...

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

The truth may hurt but lies kill.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.