Top 100 Lies Are Quotes
#1. Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
Ariana Franklin
#2. A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is stuck somewhere else, a foggy place where people believe their lies are true.
Amy Tan
#4. In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.
Eraldo Banovac
#5. In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
Ben Oliveira
#8. Lies are complicated. The truth is simple.
Rick Yancey
#9. Lies are needed for survival, but truth is the courage.
Yatendra Singh
#10. 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
#13. Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
Wm. Paul Young
#14. Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
Anne Rice
#15. Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.
Prince Ea
#16. All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
P. J. O'Rourke
#18. I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
Megan Whalen Turner
#19. Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
Lauren Oliver
#20. T often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
#21. Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.
Deyth Banger
#23. When Love and Lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the Purest heart.
Cassandra Clare
#24. Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.
John Hodgman
#25. My truth is everyone else's lies. My lies are their comfort. Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable. Who am I to cause anyone discomfort on purpose? Lying works. Lying makes it all better. Lying is my gift to everyone around me. They never even say thank you.
Kathryn Perez
#26. You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city
LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!
Warren Ellis
#27. Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
Rachel Cohn
#28. The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
Ben Folds
#29. So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
Rita Mae Brown
#30. Lies are allow in business ..love is not my business,maybe yours!!
MK PRINCE
#31. When lies are swarming and attacking me like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, the best thing I can do is open God's Word and immerse myself in His truth. Lies flee in the presence of truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#32. Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.
Germaine Greer
#33. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
Bell Hooks
#34. Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.
R. K. Milholland
#36. It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.
Anne Ursu
#37. Okay, now what to do if I don't like this person like him or her??
SAy a lie?
- Is it okay?
(So far theoretical truth, comes from the lies, the lies are the beginning...)
Say a truth?
- So far it hurts,...
Deyth Banger
#39. Lies are for those whose truths are not strong enough." --Ariane
Michelle West
#41. What has become clear is that lies are just a temporary solution to a permanent problem. Lying to spare a person's feelings, even when the truth would help them to improve, damages them in the long run.
Veronica Roth
#42. But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#43. White lies are in chapter two of the bestfriend handbook. They are to be used sparingly and only under extreme circumstances. I'm pretty sure finding out your boyfriend of more than a year is a total jerk qualifies.
Heather Hepler
#44. When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.
Mark Twight
#46. I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.
Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
Sylvia Plath
#48. Lies vs. Truth [10w]
Lies are more credible than truth because they are nuanced.
Beryl Dov
#49. The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities - the truth isn't.
Caroline George
#50. The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
Helen McCloy
#53. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell
#54. All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.
Frederick Marryat
#55. Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
Robert Payne
#56. The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.
Jenny Han
#58. The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
Jim Butcher
#59. Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.
Holly Black
#60. The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.
Kelly Reichardt
#62. I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part of the story that we tell.
Lionel Suggs
#64. Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow
Jean Rhys
#65. Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
John Green
#66. Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.
Maureen Johnson
#67. Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.
Socrates
#68. Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.
Kresley Cole
#69. I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
Anatole France
#70. I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
Lord Chesterfield
#73. American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
Edward R. Murrow
#74. The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying."
I kiss the man I lie to. He kisses me with truth. I am set free
Tarryn Fisher
#75. No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.
Laila Lalami
#76. There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.
Richard Gere
#77. Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Maxim Gorky
#78. Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
Johnny Rich
#79. 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
#80. Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
Wes Fesler
#81. Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off.
Iris St. Clair
#82. The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
Anatole France
#83. Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.
Barry Ritholtz
#84. Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.
Kami Garcia
#85. Sometimes we believe things not because we know they are true, but because the lies are easier to accept.
Vi Keeland
#86. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor Adorno
#87. Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)
Louis L'Amour
#88. Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.
Daniel Quinn
#89. Lies are so suburban...But murder is nice and clean.
Carole Morin
#90. Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.
Douglas Rushkoff
#91. Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
L. Ron Hubbard
#92. All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.
John Banville
#93. COLBIE: Lies are for the weak....Don't be a pussy even if you have one.
Bijou Hunter
#94. Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.
Craig Stone
#95. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.
Patrick Rothfuss
#96. Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.
Chris Hedges
#97. Truth is going with the flow of destiny, lies are an attempt to cover it up and fight against it.
Rebecca Hartman
#98. Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.
Brent Weeks
#99. Nope,' Jamie said without hesitation, which is how I knew he was lying. But I understood why. Sometimes lies are easier to believe.
Michelle Hodkin
#100. Their country! There you are. Their filthy lies are all over you already. I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs.
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