Top 100 Quotes About Telling Lies
#2. What is it they say about telling lies? You have to remember every detail, and sooner or later you get caught.
Adrian R. Magnuson
#3. Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
George Orwell
#4. Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little boy to practise telling lies, in case he might one day have to tell a justifiable one.
G.K. Chesterton
#5. Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#6. (Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies - unless one counts journalists.
George Orwell
#8. Telling lies and being deceitful takes so much more energy than being honest and sincere.
Steven Aitchison
#9. For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#10. I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.
Mark Haddon
#12. What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies.
Ji-li Jiang
#14. Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#15. At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.
Pete Postlethwaite
#17. It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Mario Puzo
#18. When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague
#19. The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
David B. Coe
#20. Angel, you're too good to be true
My heart must be telling lies
For I see Heaven when I look at you
And I see the blue twilight in your eyes
Sarah King
#21. Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.
Stephen King
#22. 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
#23. 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.
Denis Johnson
#24. You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
E.W. Howe
#25. 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
#27. I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
Paul O'Neill
#28. I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn't matter
Rebecca Lloyd
#29. But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.
Elizabeth Wein
#30. presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
Gore Vidal
#31. Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
Tom Holt
#32. People loved their politicians looking good. Beauty was a must when telling lies.
Cameron Jace
#33. So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.
But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?
Patrick Rothfuss
#34. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle.
#35. Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Helen Rowland
#36. A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don't you know that a donkey can't do but braying, a wolf can't do but howling, a horse can't do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can't do but telling lies?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.
Stephen Grey
#38. I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
Nicholas Haslam
#39. Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda
#40. The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
#41. Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Franz Kafka
#42. I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#43. Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
Isaac Asimov
#44. It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.
Malcolm Turnbull
#46. I just kept telling myself I didn't want you, but we said no lies, and I think that includes lying to myself. How about you?
C.D. Reiss
#47. I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.
Alice Munro
#48. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#49. Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
Gabrielle Zevin
#50. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
#51. Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
Abbi Glines
#52. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
Munia Khan
#53. If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
Chauncey Depew
#54. Man is a political animal' said Aristotle telling one of the greatest lies in human history. For every man has more in common with the hills and with the stars than with other men.
William S. Burroughs
#55. There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#57. If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.
Margot Livesey
#58. It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters.
Anne Ursu
#59. And if all that wasn't enough, you're a good fucking human being, and I'm not losing you to whatever bullshit lies your head is telling you. I know you don't have any family, so I'm officially stepping in and stepping up. I will fight for you until you can fight for yourself. You hear me? The
Laura Kaye
#60. Hitler was "someone seduced by himself," someone who was so inseparable from his words "that a measure of authenticity flowed over the audience even when he was telling obvious lies.
Volker Ullrich
#61. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#62. Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth
Louise Fitzhugh
#63. If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie.
Auliq Ice
#64. Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.
Marissa Meyer
#65. To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
Val Edward Simone
#66. I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.
Peter Greenaway
#67. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
Jack Kirby
#68. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.
Amit Kalantri
#69. I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat.
Hannah Brencher
#70. Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#71. Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.
R.M. Ford
#72. The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
Deacon Jones
#73. Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#74. Was I a secret not worth sharing
Or
Was I a fact not worth telling?
Dawn Lanuza
#75. In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.
Herman Melville
#76. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
David Shore
#77. For about four years, I've been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates sour cream. I told him I hated it too so we could have a funny thing in common.
Megan Boyle
#78. Next minute you'll be telling me there's nothing wrong,' he said softly. 'One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they're hiding huge grievances.
Lindsay Armstrong
#79. Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."
"You don't seem to agree."
"I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding
how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
George Bernard Shaw
#81. everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.
Julia Fierro
#82. You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.
Suze Orman
#83. I have never loved a half human creature as my ancient lover
She was 30% human when with me,
I bet she breath when telling white lies
Not noticing that it's where my heart lied
Bandile M. Matsenjwa
#84. It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
Ally Carter
#86. I'm so tired of people who can't be honest. "Beauty is on the inside" Really?? Then why do rich guys & successful guys always end up with beautiful women but they have lousy personalities?.
Colin Cowherd
#87. I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
#88. When you are scanning for lies and you can't decide if a person is telling the truth or lying, it's in your best interests to always go with your gut feeling.
Brian Night
#89. We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#90. The water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them.
Anne Ursu
#91. To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.
Auliq Ice
#92. All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.
Auliq Ice
#93. I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies.
Soseki Natsume
#94. If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.
William H. Ginsburg
#95. Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.
Theresa Breslin
#96. Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked ... The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.
John Cheever
#97. A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Jean De La Bruyere
#98. Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.
Alex Haditaghi
#99. For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth
about everything. That will teach them
Seth Adam Brown
#100. They keep telling you this: Have faith! But which faith? That is the crucial question! Here is a good faith you can have: Every truth can be changed through our own intelligence! Trust human mind, trust science, and this is a golden faith! Your salvation lies in here, definitely in no other place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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