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...

Thus the feeling I sometimes have – which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have – that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by...

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Because everybody lies. It’s part of living in society. Don’t get me wrong-I think it’s necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the...

The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond’s mind, and all the while their eyes said other things....

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the...

Can’t you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What’s the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It’s always unpleasant.””Is it only lies that are Pleasant?””Usually. That’s why people tell...

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself...

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Do you really think what you read in those books is true? Sure, some of it may be but have you ever actually paid attention to it? It’s all false set upon us as truth....

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

You lying liar,” Vaan said, “who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

Tell me right now.

No.” I lied.

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there’s no difference between...

In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts.

But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true...

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

The shape of her smile is curved like a lie, like a boomerang she knows she has to catch quickly when it comes back to her.

After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.

Satan is behind the theory of evolution. Satan hates God and us. Satan is the father of all lies. So he wants nothing more than to make every human being alive believe lies about God,...

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with...

Too bad we don’t have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire.” Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

The truth may hurt, but lies-they’re vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they’re there. Until it’s too late.