Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

No, sir. Trust me when I say, it was an accident and won’t be happening again for as long as I live my life as a single person. Such activities are best left to those...

An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don’t accept it now, despite all the times I’ve seen it proved right.”The common good and the individual good...

What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the...

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: “Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?” And the wolf had replied: “The truth helps me tell you better lies.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain’t it…

You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the...

Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation and experience is outside my narrow range. Despite the psychopath’s lack of conscience...

If you can’t be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

An honest being a just person has no choice than to speak his inner voice and others have to just meander between truth and lies from the noise in their lives.

Vielleicht gibt es ja gar keine tollen, wunderbaren Menschen. Und wir reden es uns für eine kurze Weile nur ein, dass der oder der toll und wunderbar ist, damit wir einen Grund haben, uns in...

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes....

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a...

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day’s 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good...

It’s exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think...

Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into...

Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn’t it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah’s father.”- Nell

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the...

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date...

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.

Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths… The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains...

For about four years, I’ve been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates...

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

If somebody says to you the quote”don’t judge the book by its cover”, then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you...

You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they’ve always been tolerant. It’s...

I was trying to spare her any further stress(…)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Who are you?” the woman said at last.”Lyra Silver—””No, where d’you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?” Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It...

Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy……….Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,Kis ke sach main sach nahi,Hai ke hai nahi,Bas yehi sawaal hai,Aur sawaal ka jawaab bhi, Sawaal hai……….Dil ki gar sunoon to hai,Dimaag...

Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is.

I spent most of my life believing lwas crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in childhood were treated as nonexistent or normal. This belief colored every decision made, from something so basic as...

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn’t trust “Mothers of Borogravia!” and that was from the government. And if you couldn’t trust the government, who could you trust?Very nearly everyone, come...

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Truth is a risky proposition. It’s the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold...

Everything is fine, nobody is happy…

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.