The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from many different and largely unrelated families had been taken into the care of Cleveland County...

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is...

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or...

It’s lies. It’s all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that’s all. People see what they think is there.

What you see will hurt you; what you don’t see will hurt you.

Words stick, even when we don’t want them to.

Lying is the new truth.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco...

Emma, la maestra de la mentira. La reina del “Mi hermano es normal”, “Mi hermano es tímido”. Mi hermano es muy enfermizo, tiene alergias, mononucleosis, intoxicación alimentaria, la gripe. Y la mentira más grande y...

Never lie to the one who wants you safe.

Sometimes what I wouldn’t give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that’ll save your ass.

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth...

Luz’s manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn’t that she made things up, strictly speaking–only that facts were merely a point of departure for...

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.

Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Time turns our lies into truths.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.

Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know...

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the forces of production and...

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too.

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

Lies don’t fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you’re left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

Analogies are like lies.

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple’s corridors; she does not know herself. ‘I can endure lies,’ she cries. ‘I cannot...

I don’t want to see it anymore. It’s lousy. And it’s a cheat. You build it all around something… set yourself on something… and then you don’t want it. Isn’t it too bad the great...

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

Here are the wounds in my feet, and in my hands, and in my side. I am the one you endeavored to kill, but death is my slave”? Simply because the resurrection is a myth....

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but...

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one’s own resources.

Lies is lying the memory from the truth

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don’t put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don’t risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your...