It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person’s trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on...

Life is a lie and only I know the absolute truth.

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is...

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of...

You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell...

Nobody hates being lied to more than a liar.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that’s not loaded down with manure?

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

Don’t be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren’t any good at writing. That fear is normal. I feel it. Most writers who care...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

You know, everything’s a sort of lie, and then you die.

Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive aspects, along with a premeditated structure of torture-enforced lessons. The phenomena was first...

Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!

We’re going to be okay.”Here’s the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it...

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

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.