83 Lies Quotes

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, 'I'm a Liar,' right there on the dust jacket.

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

'Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!'

'Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'

The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated again and again.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'T was one of my most intimate enemies.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred 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.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

That is of course rather painful for those involved. One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

It was a lie of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said that when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

The gang serves lies, the passionate Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth Hunts in no pack.

What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? ... There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity ... You can smell it. It smells like death.

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies : a man lie is, 'I was at Kevin's house!' A woman lie is like, 'It's your baby!'

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.

'You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police. Everybody else you tell the truth to.'

Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons. ~From a statement released soon after his arrest, November 2003.

And it came into hooch's mind that when both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerfully close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

And it came into Hooch's mind that when both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth. -Red Prophet

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. -Ender's Game

The bigger/more blatant a lie, the more people will believe it.

If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.

No lie can live forever.