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.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Lie to yourself, not to someone else

Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life… is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love… does not conquer all.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn’t exist.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment.

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

Secrets are lies by another name.

My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are...

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we’ve gotBut aren’t they beautiful?

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

I feel like people are so accustomed to comfort…now in days the truth to things is uncomfortable, so people avoid it. & sugarcoat things into a lie.. Sometimes the truth may be insensitive but I...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

…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...