Lies Quotes - Page 2

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Nothing is ever certain.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

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'.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.