Always Told Lies Quotes

#1. The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

Charles Ludlam

#2. And the bummer thing is, ghosts never leave. They might leave you alone sometimes, but they're always there deep down, whispering lies in your ear. They echo the lies others told you: That you're not smart enough; that you're not pretty; that you'll never amount to anything.

Josh Shipp

#3. I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

William Golding

#4. Idea 721. Lies always have a purpose; but a truth has no such compulsion! The very purpose of lies is that they have to be told somewhere. Otherwise there arises no necessity to create them. The truth exists as it is; only some confess and others do not.

Thiruman Archunan

#5. Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies.

William Manchester

#7. Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

Kirsten Prout