It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

It was Freud’s ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the trust and confidence of many women, who revealed their troubles to...

Don’t let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

He’d stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.

And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret....

I’ll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And...

It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn’t matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs...

Lying is a thriving vocation.

Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can...

Lies require commitment.

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.

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without...

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics.

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.