Top 100 Lies And Quotes
#2. Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
John Adams
#4. Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
Saul Bellow
#5. There is only one objective of this life - to strip you of your desires, lies, and misconceptions.
Shane Stadler
#6. Breakthrough focused gospel leads to lies and deception
Sunday Adelaja
#7. If we allow ourselves to suffer, it takes its chance to have power over us, feeding us with lies and making us feel mortal so that it can feel immortal.
Don Jose Ruiz
#8. Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
Ian McDonald
#9. A prophet's task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day. And Jeremiah does this better than anyone.
Kathleen Norris
#10. Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.
John Ringo
#11. There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all
Zooey Deschanel
#12. Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away.
Dawn Kurtagich
#14. Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth?
The answer is no.
Leonard Nimoy
#15. Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. It was the mob that swept him into office. However, it's unlikely that when more sober elements prevail they'll want to support a cripple and demagogue who depends on inflaming the mass with his lies and spellbinding.
Philip K. Dick
#18. I don't feel as strong today as I do on other days, but I know Your strength will prevail in my weakness. The enemy is always trying to fill me with fear and doubt and make me abandon this mission. Help me ignore the lies and have courage to go on each day
Molly Evangeline
#19. Kestrel raised one brow. How very surprising. Didn't you just make a promise and ask me to trust your word? Really, Arin. You must sort out your lies and your truths or even you won't know which is which.
Marie Rutkoski
#20. Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was marred only by those corruptions necessary to its enterprise.
Joshua Ferris
#21. UNSPEAKABLE THINGS Sex, Lies and Revolution By Laurie Penny 267 pp. Bloomsbury. $16.
Anonymous
#23. Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall
#24. The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Meridel Le Sueur
#25. My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'House of Lies.' And of course, 'Scandal' is high on the list; you've got to do 'Scandal.'
Glynn Turman
#26. Lies and the truth both have one thing in common, Shawn," Remy said in a low, steady voice. "They both have their consequences.
Abigail Roux
#27. War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
John Dos Passos
#28. Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.
Katherine Allred
#29. The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. We stared at one another, two strangers bound eternally by a shared past of lies and broken promises.
Julie Johnson
#31. A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler Yeats
#32. I don't really care what people say about me. I'm fine with lies and rumors. It's the truth I don't want being told.
Katja Millay
#33. Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can't.
M.F. Moonzajer
#34. And I know it might sound crazy, but after all that, I still love you. You wanna come back in my life But now there is something I have to do. I have to tell the one that I once adored, that they can't have my love no more, 'cause my heart can't take no more lies, And my eyes are all out of cries.
Amanda Perez
#35. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
Miguel De Unamuno
#36. Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#37. Before I die, I want to change my name to "Here," so that my tombstone could simply read, "Here lies." And then people who knew me could walk by, shake their head, and say, "Ain't that the truth.
Jarod Kintz
#38. God is equally near to everything and every place and is equally ready to give himself, so far as in him lies, and therefore a person shall know him aright who knows how to see him the same, under all circumstances.
Meister Eckhart
#39. Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch
#40. We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech
because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
Barack Obama
#41. Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
Isabel Allende
#42. The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.
Stephen Crane
#43. I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'
Noah Baumbach
#44. There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken.
Nadia Hashimi
#45. Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put
Dean Koontz
#46. I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
Waris Dirie
#47. After all, all human beings are the same - made up of flesh, bone, and blood. We all want happiness, and we all try to avoid suffering. We are the members of one single human family, and our arguments are born from secondary causes. Disputes, lies, and killings are useless.
Dalai Lama XIV
#48. There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.
John Varley
#49. The world was full of lies. And people keep telling us we need them, all in the name of peace. But the peace we got was poison.
Steven Erikson
#50. There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?
Kristen Callihan
#51. Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#52. I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.
Bobby Jones
#53. We are all deceivers to some degree. The difference between safe and unsafe "liars" is that safe people own their lies and see them as a problem to change as they become aware of their deception.
Henry Cloud
#54. My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.
Heather Mills
#55. Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
Miguel Ruiz
#56. When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#58. There are small truths and big truths, just as there are smal lies and big lies, and along those truths and lies run the questions that were never asked and those that were never answered.
R.J. Ellory
#59. If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.
Charles Spurgeon
#60. You wonder when it's going to get easier for us, but it's not easy for anybody, Allie. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it... that's where greatness lies. And we're great.
Jenni Moen
#61. Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.
Mason Cooley
#62. There are lies and lies. Now and then the Great Recorder must put one on the credit side of the balance, one that has saved intolerable suffering, or has made well and happy a sick soul.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#63. I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
Albert Camus
#64. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#65. I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.
Rush Limbaugh
#66. The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth ... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.
Susan Sontag
#67. The things we teach our children are cheerful, pleasant lies: and it is high time that someone has the fortitude to admit it
Vina Delmar
#68. People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
Oscar Wilde
#69. Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
Cortney S. Warren
#70. No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
Joe Wilson
#71. There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.
Albert Einstein
#72. There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy.
"Who wins...?"
"The one you feed".
MK Asante
#73. To some I was a freak; to others, a fantasy. I was Satan or savior; a witch or a goddess. I was legend, I was lies. And tonight it really was, just all too much.
Gayle Ann Williams
#74. I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.
Eric Ambler
#75. People who say, "it is not my fault," continuously fail. People who say, "I've done no wrong," have not done enough right. People who say, "I am done!" are never done repeating the cycle. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can't sow lies and reap truth.
Katina Ferguson
#76. Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness - there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
Orson Scott Card
#77. Are you a journalist?"
"I'm a doctor."
"Good. We need doctors, Wallahi." Sadoon scowled. "Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.
Leslie Cockburn
#78. There was still so much unresolved between them, but in this moment, she couldn't bring herself to care about the way their relationship had started, about all the mutual lies and betrayals. In this moment, she knew only that she loved him, that every part of her longed to be with him.
Anna Zaires
#79. Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#80. Everybody has secrets, everybody lies, and everybody cheats their way through life for self-fulfillment. We wouldn't do it if we felt sorry; we do it because it's our human right to seek happiness.
E.K. Blair
#81. Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?
Sergei Lukyanenko
#82. We all laced together - a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.
Ruta Sepetys
#83. I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
James Bovard
#84. It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
John Grisham
#85. No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence
Mazigh Buzakhar
#86. What actually happened during the Clinton presidency? No one can remember anything about it except the bimbos, the lies, and the felonies
Ann Coulter
#87. She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
Billy Joel
#88. We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.
Bryant McGill
#89. After all the work and lies - and lotion - it took to get me into this parking lot, I'm not going home without more success to add to my list.
Anne Eliot
#90. You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language.
Felix Clay
#91. Politicians ... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Paul Lynde
#92. Mean fake advice letters to students, and spreading lies and nasty rumors. And
Rachel Renee Russell
#93. The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
David Bowie
#94. The phrase "Old Soul" is the closest many can come to describing those who feel like they have seen and done it all before, who can see through the lies and illusions of existence, and who experience a tired longing to "return home.
Aletheia Luna
#95. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.
Edward Young
#96. In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
Robert McKee
#97. Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy
#98. Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.
Lord Chesterfield
#99. Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
#100. I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
H.G.Wells
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