Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

Lying isn’t something you should be proud of, but be grateful if you’ve gained a talent for doing it correctly.

You can learn things from a heart so bleedingWhen love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

I shall not lie!” Eilonwy cried, “not for this traitor and deserter.” “It is not for him,” Taran said quietly, “but for the sake of our quest.” “It isn’t right,” Eilonwy began, tears starting in...

{From Lindsey’s address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank. Burbank was one of the most beloved people in the early 20th century due to his countless contributions to humanity, but when, in an...

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

Paul is a liar, he said so. (Romans 3:7.)

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called “worthwhile goals”. Money, fame, power,...

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth–about everything. That will teach them

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges...

The best lie was always just short of the truth.

People’s behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world’s version of insanity.

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay...

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in...

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

I’m just not going to do it so that we can say that we’ve done it. And I’m not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is ‘please don’t tell anyone’...

There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn’t true. I was learning that the hard way.

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse...

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

Ask no questions, I tell no lies.

In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies”. HS/el

The real reason we have faces,” Margot Lassiter observes, “is to hold back what we’re thinking from the world.

Don’t even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves

I don’t know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we’re rocketing along at high velocity.

One doesn’t intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?

Repito que… es mentira el cristal con que me miras;es mentira que dude de dudar;es mentira que más de cien mentirasno digan la verdad.

You cannot believe everything you hear

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.

America’s intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They’re all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to...

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

We have to HIDE from each other because we think that we are the only ones BROKEN. We think we’re the only ones whose original selves we ground up and smashed under the jack-booted heel...

Minciunile rasar cu usurinta de pe buzele noastre. Sunt desprinse din ganduri, temeri si sentimente, le folosim pentru a ne ascunde si a manipula, in timp ce adevarul ramane nerostit, o umbra care isi schimba...

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

Focus on what’s important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other’s diminishing lies.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, “When you learn someone else’s secret, your own secrets aren’t safe. Dig up one, release them all.

Maybe, it is just enough to believe with a positive heart that people didn’t let you down. It could be just this: They couldn’t give you the compassion you really wanted based on where their...