Lie Quotes

“I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.”
― R.K. Lilley, In Flight

“Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.”
― Habeeb Akande

“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it's not the truth and sometimes I don't know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don't believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.”
― Lydia Davis, Break It Down

“The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out.”
― Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores.”
― Habeeb Akande

“they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”
― Anne Perry, Tathea

“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal?”
― Ali Altantawi

“Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“I'm far from perfect- maybe beautifully flawed- but I don't lie”
― Jayde Scott, A Job From Hell

“Talking is not easy. Talking intends to convey what you mean. Lying is easy, not talking. When one lies, one does
not care, and that’s the easy part.”
― Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life

“If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?”
― Laurence Olivier

“The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well”
― Richard L Torres

“My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies”
― Munia Khan

“The truth hurts when you live a life of lies.”
― Habeeb Akande

“From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience.”
― Upanishad

“The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image of me; it would ruin every thought they'd ever had about who I was. It would be another death.Another loss. Another miscarriage.”
― Dana Reinhardt, Harmless

“Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.”
― Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English

“Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!”
― Raymond Benson, Sons of Liberty

“Chi è bravo a mentire tiene la testa alta. Non ha timore. Chi non sa mentire dstoglie gli occhi.”
― Guenassia Jean-Michel, Il club degli incorreggibili ottimisti

“Sometimes people don’t want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.”
― Chelsea Cameron

“There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys.”
― Richard Diaz

“Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.”
― Anthony Liccione